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Home Router DHCP query

If I disable DHCP in a home ADSL router, how can the systems connected to router thru wireless or LAN CABLE  get IP address?? Can I assign manual IP address to all those machines in same subnet corresponding to router as gateway. For eg if router is acting as gateway with IP address 192.168.1.1 so can I manually assign static IP address to individual machines from 192.168.1.2 and so on?
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Not sure whether I'm getting all of this right or not, but although this question has already been marked as solved, I'm a little puzzled by some of what @Rindi has put?
I'm also somewhat confused by the marking on this one?

First of all Rindi's final response seems to just be pretty much a duplication of what Uttam (the OP) has explained?

Rindi asks "First of all, why would you need Internet for the printer?"

I don't currently see anywhere in what the OP has put, where they actually mention the printer needing internet?  So, I'm not sure why Rindi has asked this???

Also, I wasn't aware that one of the OPs own responses, could be marked as an assisted solution?

If anything, I would have been tempted to mark Predrags' solution as the accepted, rather than Rindis', but not 100% sure on that?
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I myself am confused what solution was advised to me. When I experiment on my network, without disabling the DHCP also I was able to implement WDS. i asked the question as per TPlink advise to disable DHCP and I was not sure if the connected systems with get IP address somehow. There is no way to mark question closed without solution.
Basically, IP addresses have to come from somewhere.  They'll either come from a router (std practice), or another DHCP server on the network somewhere (most likely a server PC running DHCP).
It's NEVER a good idea to have two DHCP servers running on the same network.

When you say that the printer is at a different physical location, I assume you mean it's in a totally separate building, or do you mean it's just in another room somewhere?
Its in the same building but atleast 50 meters apart. Also untill I connect to the printer router, anyways its DHCP is of no use other than providing the IP to just the printer, no other device is connected to this ssid/router.
Not sure if I am misinterpreting what your saying, but just to clear things up a bit, you seem to be suggesting that the DHCP on the printer's router is providing the IP to the printer?  It's NOT!  Not if you've manually given the printer an IP address.  If the printer has a manual/static/fixed IP address, then DHCP is doing NOTHING!

I don't know what capability the printer has, i.e. wired/wireless/parallel/usb?  You mention at least 50 meters?
It might be possible to physically connect the printer to the main router via network cable (allbeit a long one)

It sounds like you're just referring to giving the printer a manual IP?  If so, just make sure you reserve (as I believe Rindi advised), an IP for the printer?  Shouldn't be a problem doing that.