Oh boy! Just read a tutorial on netmasks. I had to sit down to let my head stop spinning. Way WAY beyond my ken! The mask assigned under DHCP was 255.255.0.0 but when I tried entering that in the static IP tab, it just dropped the second zero.
I truly cannot get a solid grasp the consequences of any of this, even if I can sorta conceptually grasp what a mask is and a little of how the number sequences work (kinda sorta maybe a little…)
I’m not certain how to proceed from here…