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Tell Me about IP lease time?
Name: basicdos Date: December 29, 2004 at 17:04:14 Pacific OS: WinMe CPU/Ram: int III / 255Mb
Comment:
I am curious about the ip lease time I have a Dlink router with a hardwired home PC and I somtimes connect my wireless laptop to the network What is the best use of an ip address lease is it better to leave it for 2 weeks or 1 hour? Why? I have "intermitent" trouble connecting to my network, and I think it may have something to do with this.
Name: XpUser Date: December 29, 2004 at 17:19:09 Pacific
Reply:
Lease time? Dynamic IP addresses are usually leased on a 24-hour basis by your ISP.
i_XpUser
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Response Number 2
Name: basicdos Date: December 29, 2004 at 17:48:29 Pacific
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the lease time I am talking about is the time that my router software leases dynamic Ip addresses to my network computers and I cant figure out what the best way to do this is. for example if the lease is for an hour and I go over that time while using the network does the router seemlessly issue another ip address or does it disconnect me and if I have a long term 2 week lease time and I dont use the laptop for a while do both my router and wireless laptop retain that ip address the laptop is used in 2 different locations on 2 different networks
somtimes it works fine and somtimes I cant connect, I see no discernable patern Just looking for some Ideas or info Thanks
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Response Number 3
Name: Dave02 Date: December 29, 2004 at 23:49:10 Pacific
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The Ip addy is reassigned seemlessly. You wouldn't even realize it. If it's leased for an hour, and your on the PC for more than that time. You still retain the IP until you reboot the PC. Typical setting is for 24 hrs. The problem you are having is prolly due to the fact that the laptop is used on two different networks. You may want to set up two hardware profiles for that nic card, with the settings for each network in the two different hardware profiles. Then you can switch between the profile for each network you are on. Click on Start/Help and support to learn more about hardware profiles.
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Response Number 4
Name: basicdos Date: December 30, 2004 at 09:16:04 Pacific
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Thanks dave I think I will have to look at the profile settings on the ibm laptop There are 2 settings now One problem I have is I need to buy a thumb drive The Laptop is WinXp and has no floppy drive it has a cdr/w drive and the PC is win melenium when I go to network wizzard on either the setup-disk that they want to make for the client in either case is not compatable so I have been meddling with the settings Ill break down and get the thumbdrive then XP will make a setup disk for the PC which has usb also
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