Remote Desktop failed, how can ensure me that this will not happen?

Hello

I have a computer that is put in place in a holiday home in another State I want to be able to access through Windows Remote Desktop.  The computer connects wireless to the Internet via a router Linksys WRT160Nv3.  I had to check out the computer configured with Remote Desktop and it worked very well for many months.  I was able to access it very well.  All of a sudden this weekend, which coincides with my father, bringing a new laptop in the House (and the wireless network), the first computer remote desktop connection has stopped working.  I've trained my father on the phone to go in the settings of the router (web interface) and change the Port Range Forwarding IP address since the old internal IP address of the desktop to its new IP address remotely, and this fixes the problem.

My question is, how can I avoid this problem does not happen?  Is it possible that I can get the router to always assign the same internal IP address to the same MAC hardware?  Or is there another solution I'm missing?

Thanks for any help/suggestions.

If the router is capable of a DHCP reservation, then that will solve the problem. It should be under the first tab on the router configuration page. You must acquire the MAC address of the computer, and then assign an IP address. Therefore, it assigns this IP address on the computer only.

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