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Originally posted by dover, ben
thank you for all the help so far, let me be a lil more specific with my problem. THe whole reason i'm trying to access my routers control panel or whatever it is, is to change the dmz host for online gaming, whenever a computer is added or removed from the router it changes the last three numbers of my ip address and i have to relay the change to the dmz host. Now i do know what i changed my subnet mask to, it was only a pull down window of options, plus it tells me in my network conn properties.
Secondly i never changed my ip, just my subnet mask, would that alter my ability to get to my routers control thru my own comp?
Sry that i know absolutely nothing about computers. 
Thanks again for all your help
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OK. If you need to use the DMZ feature you'll want to use a static IP. Let's assume your Linksys settings are at their defaults. You'll want to configure you computer with the following:
IP: 192.168.1.200
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
From now on your PC will use this IP address. Make sure you set an IP address that is "outside" the pool of DHCP addresses. For example, if your DHCP range is 192.168.1.100 - 192.168.1.200 then you'd want to change your IP to something under .100 or above .200. Never use 192.168.1.255 as this is a broadcast address; likewise 192.168.1.0 isn't going to work either.
In the Linksys, set the DMZ to 192.168.1.200. You're all done.