Re: Buffalo HP router - leases

Peabody wrote:

> I've been using my new Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 router for a couple weeks
> now, and have been extremely pleased with it. I still get a pretty
> good connection out on the back porch, which is not that far, but
> goes through a lot of walls.
>
> But the other night it reset the connection to both my desktop,
> which is wired to it, and my laptop on wireless. I thought
> something was wrong, but finally figured out that their leases had
> expired.
>
> It appears that unlike a direct connection through the modem, the
> leases to the router survive all the devices being powered down
> overnight. So right now, for example, having powered up everything
> this morning (Thursday), my desktop shows that the 48-hour lease was
> obtained Tuesday night, and will expire tonight. That's what it
> said last night when I shut down.
>
> What I'm used to on a direct connection is getting a new lease every
> time I boot up, and then Windows renewing the lease mid-way in its
> life so that it never actually expires. But that's not happening
> with the router for some reason.
>
> Well, this is not a major problem, but it does mean that at lease
> expiration time my connection to the internet is broken for a minute
> or so, which I would rather avoid. Short of flashing to DD-WRT,
> which I don't want to do, is there an easy fix for this?
>
>
Hi,
Why worry? Lease is automatically renewed. At least with my ISP.
You can manually renew it as well.