How Often Do You All Renew the Lease?

Dyre Straits · Sep 7, 2005, 09:24 AM

I recall having to do this with DSL and, after getting Comcast Cable just a little over a week ago, I found that I had to do it a little bit ago after Comcast finished doing some maintenance on the line.

It was a simple task of just going into the router and Releasing then Renewing the Lease.

I'm wondering how often you find you need to do this on your home LANs?

Yousaif · Sep 7, 2005, 09:33 AM

Short lease times on a cable IP address usually take place shortly before and following maintenance. You should be getting a 3-5 day lease on your IP. Mine really hasn't changed in 6 months or so, though my lease on it renews.

Dyre Straits · Sep 7, 2005, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Yousaif

Short lease times on a cable IP address usually take place shortly before and following maintenance. You should be getting a 3-5 day lease on your IP. Mine really hasn't changed in 6 months or so, though my lease on it renews.

Thanks,

I'm supposed to have a set IP address according to my agreement. What happened tonight was that the connection went down around 2 a.m. EDT. I kept watching the lights on the modem and even recycled it a few times.

Once I saw the Cable light stay on, I kept trying to get back on the Internet. It wouldn't make a connection until I went into the router and did the release/renew function.

I'm kind of hoping that I don't have to do that each time they do maintenance. If that's going to be standard, I'll have to show someone here how to do it when I'm not around. The router is 'supposed' to be set up to automatically do it....at least if I'm reading things right.

Yousaif · Sep 7, 2005, 10:28 AM

Linksys routers are notoriously bad at obtaining IP addresses without a reset. I can honestly say that about 60% of the router related issues I deal with are Linksys releated.

You may just have to deal with having to reset the router after maintenance. If you wait a bit longer instead of hovering over your connection, then it will probably reset over a period of time.

**temeteus82** · Sep 7, 2005, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Dyre Straits

I recall having to do this with DSL and, after getting Comcast Cable just a little over a week ago, I found that I had to do it a little bit ago after Comcast finished doing some maintenance on the line.

It was a simple task of just going into the router and Releasing then Renewing the Lease.

I'm wondering how often you find you need to do this on your home LANs?

Hi!
My IP changes when I boot to linux and when I boot back to winxp ... But the ip for winxp or linux won't change...

md5 · Sep 7, 2005, 12:56 PM

Depends on your network config

I'm connected using a Thompson DSL router via ethernet and I never have to renew its DHCP lease... my IP changes every 4-5 days, but the router updates it automatically on its own. It seems like you need a better router, D-Links are not the best choice in my opinion

Dyre Straits · Sep 7, 2005, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by md5

Depends on your network config

I'm connected using a Thompson DSL router via ethernet and I never have to renew its DHCP lease... my IP changes every 4-5 days, but the router updates it automatically on its own. It seems like you need a better router, D-Links are not the best choice in my opinion

The one I have is distributed by Network Anywhere and made by LinkSys. My previous D-Link 704P worked really well for over 6 years. It might even work now that I know we have a good connection.

Dyre Straits · Sep 8, 2005, 09:21 PM

Well, once again I came to the computer and had no Internet connection. This time, though, I couldn't even access the router to do a renew/release function.

What I had to do was disconnect the uplink cable from the router that goes to the modem, and then plug the cable from the registered computer directly into the modem. Then I was able to establish that I had Internet connection.

After I did that, I then re-connected the host computer cable back into the router, the uplink cable from the router to the modem, and, only then, could I access the router's settings again.

This was all done AFTER I had turned off power to both the modem and the router and restarted the computer. Doing this didn't change anything.

Once I was able to get back into the router, the release/renew worked fine.

It just seems that it's a lot of trouble and will be a big inconvenience when I'm not around to do this kind of troubleshooting.

SFOSOK · Sep 8, 2005, 09:54 PM

Linksys has been working better than expected for me now for a couple years. I wouldn't go any other way personally.

Matth · Sep 9, 2005, 05:54 PM

I turn my router off overnight (and it's not even wireless) - it's on the main switch, ahead of the switchbox that runs the computer and everyting else.

Dyre Straits · Sep 9, 2005, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Matth

I turn my router off overnight (and it's not even wireless) - it's on the main switch, ahead of the switchbox that runs the computer and everyting else.

That won't work for here. We never turn off anything because of the schedules here. Someone could be needing access at any time.

Also, I'm running a game server on one of the computers.

Dyre Straits · Sep 21, 2005, 04:57 AM

New Issue -- Same Problem:

It seems that the Router wants to update IPs on the network computers and this is one of the things that causes the computers to lose access to the Internet. The game server I mentioned above has had its IP address changed several times. It might be .100 one time and then .101 or .102 (last three digits only showing here) and that causes me to have to reset the DMZ for the server.

It also seems that, when the router does this, I can't even access the router at all. I have to completely turn it off, wait a few seconds, then turn it back on and let it do its thing before I can even get back to the router settings.

I'm about ready to just try a different -- possibly better -- router.

Yousaif · Sep 21, 2005, 12:19 PM

You could disable DHCP on the router and set your PC's static.

Dyre Straits · Sep 21, 2005, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Yousaif

You could disable DHCP on the router and set your PC's static.

That thought has occured to me. I may just try that.

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