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How To Fix Self Assigned IP Addresses In OS X
Mar 13, 2025
A video how-to about fixing self assigned IP addresses in OS X. Enjoy.
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hey everyone today I'm going to be
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showing you how to fix your Internet
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connection if it appears to be broken so
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what'll happen is let's say you go on
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your Mac and you think everything's fine
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you look up under you know your airport
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icon and you have full connection and
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everything looks good then you head over
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to a browser and you can can't get
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anything it won't display any web pages
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it appears that you're not connected at
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all now this can be really frustrating
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and you know you can can make you mad if
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if you uh don't know what the fix is so
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it's actually fairly simple all you're
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going to have to do is open up system
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preferences which can be found by
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opening a new finder
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window and then going into your
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applications
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folder and then scrolling down to system
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preferences
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so once this is open what you're going
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to do is you're going to find the
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network Tab and it's under internet and
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wireless so you're just going to click
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on that and what you're going to see
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here is all the different ways you can
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connect to the internet and the
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information about them so the problem
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you'll be having most likely is that one
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of your devices will say it as a self
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assigned IP so in this case it's
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ethernet and it says self- assigned IP
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ethernet has a self- assigned IP address
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and will not be able to connect to the
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internet well that that's going going to
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be a problem because even if it looks
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like you're connected you're not going
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to be so I don't have my ethernet
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connected to anything so it's not going
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to show that it's fixed on here but this
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does work um there's two different
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options you have now the first one's not
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always the most reliable uh but you can
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try it you're going to want to click on
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the advanced tab now this works no
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matter if if you're under airport
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ethernet you know Bluetooth fire wire so
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that does that doesn't matter so you're
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going to click on this Advanced button
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down here and you're going to see this
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drop down menu pop up and you can click
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renew DHCP lease and it's going to take
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a couple
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seconds and you can see nothing changed
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for me here which it's cuz I'm not
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connected to anything I'm connected with
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airport so you do that then you can try
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going back and browsing the web again if
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that still doesn't work what you're
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going to do is you're going to have to
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set a new l a new location so if you
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look up in the top here it says location
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and currently at home so what you're
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going to do is you're going to click on
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edit locations it's 8:00 and then you're
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going to click the plus button right
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here and then name a new location so for
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now I'll just name it test and then
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click done so now you have a new
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location and what you're going to do
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here is make sure you're connected Ed so
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I'm going to click on
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Airport and I'm going to click
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Advanced and I will click on renew DHCP
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lease and click
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apply and then click
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okay so now it'll take a couple seconds
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and you'll be connected and now I have
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an IP address that's working and I'm
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connected to my network and everything's
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fine so that's two quick fixes and you
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should be good to go then you know there
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should be no problems um Airport's
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connected you could see after I'm in a
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new location it wasn't connected and it
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wasn't getting an IP address and then
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it's fixed once you make a new location
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so you know first you can try renewing
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your DHCP lease if that doesn't work
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create a new location and that should
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solve a lot of common uh internet
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connection problems you might have so I
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hope this you found this useful and if
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you ever run into problems with this on
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your Mac you'll know what to do thanks
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for watching
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