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As Eddie pointed out, using a mixed DHCP and static IP network, you may need to reserve the IP addresses used for your static devices. If you don't know how to do that on your router, there are some easy workarounds:

1) If the static IP device is never shut off, the router won't allocate that IP accidentally to a DHCP device. So if you never turn off your Vienna Ensemble Pro, it will hold that 10.0.0.20 number you have given it so that the router/DHCP won't hand that out to some other device via DHCP.

2) If you start allocating IP addresses with high numbers to static IP addresses, the chances of your DHCP given number getting into that range will be highly unlikely unless you have a lot of devices. For instance, if you give your Vienna Ensemble Pro computer the IP address of 10.0.0.250, you would have to have 249 devices attached to the network before the DHCP server (router) would get to hand out 10.0.0.250. And most consumers don't have that many devices on their network. This is the safer workaround if you don't know how to do an address reservation on your network.


From what you describe, the easiest solution for you is:
On your laptop, turn off your wireless!
Connect your laptop to your router/switch via the USB ethernet cable. If you want to set this to a static IP, set it to 10.0.0.250
Connect your Artist Mix to your router/switch via an ethernet cable. Set this to DHCP.
Connect your Vienna Ensemble Pro computer to your router/switch via an ethernet cable. If you want to set this to a static IP, set it to 10.0.0.251

Do not turn on your wireless while working. If you do, you've created two paths to the network and that will screw things up because your computer will not know how to send data/communicate (over wireless or via the ethernet cable.) There's more to it than this but this is the simple explanation.