Static IP address on iPhone

Hi, and happy new year!
I have a question for the community. I have just bought a Sonos music system. Every so often the controller on my iPhone loses connection with the system. I've done quite a bit of online research and the issue seems to be with how my router (at BT home hub) allocates and renews DHCP leases. I had a similar issue with my Samsung network printer which was resolved by setting it to a fixed IP address (so the router always assigns it the same IP).
I'm gonna set fixed IP addresses to the Sonos components - but think the principal issue is the IP address assigned to the iPhone as this changes when I come and go from the house. I'm talking about the iPhones IP address on my home network, not on the cellular network.
So my question is this... will setting a fixed IP address to the iPhone on the router (and on the phone) cause any issues I am not anticipating?
I know HOW to do the IP address fixing - just not sure if I SHOULD.
Thanks in advance - and if you have any other ideas for sorting the Sonos system, they'd me much appreciated.
Chris.

SUCCESS!!!!!
I visited my brother-in-law yesterday and attempted to connect with his secure network. By sheer luck, he is using the exact same model LinkSys router. My iPhone connected first time--so the iPhone was eliminated as a source of the problem.
I didn't do a lot of troubleshooting at his house, but I did notice that his network was set for both dynamic DHCP and dynamic DNS. I know that either or both of Windstream (my ISP) and my broadband modem requires a pair of static DNS addresses.
Sure enough, delving real deep into Windstream's support site, I discovered a LinkSys router DNS help page, specifying how to set static DNS addresses in LinkSys routers. I then accessed my router, enterd the known static addresses, saved the router settings, then rebooted the iPhone and connected to the network.
SUCCESS!!!
Thanks to Jane, who suggested it was an ISP issue, Jason, and all at Apple support. dumonj, I'll email you directly. Try this suggestion and see if it helps.

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Ooops, sorry, I forgot that yours is a wired-only network printer.
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Hi @Carpenter47
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