WD My Cloud URL address last digit keep randomly changing

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Hi. I hope someone can help. The WD MyCloud device that  have seems to just ramdomly change the last digit on the URL address for no apparent reason. One day it wil be 4 and the next I know it will have changed to 3 or 2 or whatever t decides.

When this happens I  am unable to access the device from my laptop until I have changed the target URL address on the shortcuts. Also I get an network connecteion error message 906 on my smartphone so I then need to remove the device from my smartphne and mannually add it again.

Surely this cannot be right!

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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It’s the IP address. Your router is changing it because you have IP address selected by dynamic DHCP.

Use your router’s control panel, and look for a page called something like ‘Devices’, find your MyCloud, and change the IP assignment method to something like  ‘fixed’, ‘always use this address’address’, 'infinite lease period", or simply change it from DHCP to Static.