Custom DHCP Ranges and Static IP Addresses

With Connectify Hotspot, you can set custom IP ranges such as 192.168.x.x, 10.x.x.x, or 172.16.x.x to 172.31.x.x.

By default Connectify Hotspot dynamically selects an IP range for your hotspot, and uses DHCP to give out automatically chosen IP addresses to all of your clients. However, for more advanced users, you can manage them yourself by either specifying a range of IP addresses or giving single devices a fixed address. Both need Connectify Hotspot MAX; on other editions they show a MAX badge. Both are for Routed network access, and aren't available in bridged mode, where devices get their addresses from the network you're sharing.

If you don't actually need clients with static IP addresses, we suggest that you leave Addresses for devices on Automatic. This allows Connectify Hotspot to intelligently pick ranges and addresses that will never conflict with any other connected network.

Choose an address range

Click Settings, then Network. Under Routed mode, Addresses for devices is set to Automatic. Setting a range will tell Hotspot to only assign addresses within it.

1. Click Choose a range.
2. Pick the start of the range: 10.x.x.1, 172.16–31.x.1 or 192.168.x.1.
3. Type the other numbers. The note below shows the result, for example "This PC will be 192.168.10.1, and devices get 192.168.10.2 to 192.168.10.254."
4. Click Use this range. If the hotspot is running, it restarts with the new range.

To go back, click Automatic.

Give a device a fixed IP address

You can give any device that has joined your hotspot a fixed (static) IP address, with or without a custom range. By configuring a fixed IP address you are telling Connectify Hotspot to always assign your device that IP address.

1. Click Clients and select the device.
2. Under Fixed IP address, type the last number of the address you want (2 to 254). The rest of the address always comes from your hotspot's range, so the device stays inside it.
3. Click Fix. The panel then shows, for example, "Fixed at .10".

To let the device get its address automatically again, click Automatic under Fixed IP address.

Using the command line

When setting the range from the user interface, the computer running Connectify Hotspot defaults to an IP address ending in .1. Using the Connectify CLI (Hotspot MAX) you can set the full IP address for the hotspot with the "dhcp" option. So, for example, if you want your hotspot's IP address to be 10.2.2.7 you would run:

   > connectify_cli dhcp 10.2.2.7

If you want to have access to custom address ranges and fixed IP addresses for your Hotspot you can purchase a MAX license from our online store at https://connectify.me/store/.