Re: Buffalo router disupts internet connection on lease renewal

On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:51:19 -0600, Peabody
<waybackNO784SPAM44@yahoo.com> wrote in
<qxUHh.14979$oJ1.13062@newsfe18.lga>:

>I have a Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 router. On the LAN side I have two
>computers, one Ethernet and one wireless. The WAN side goes to a
>Motorola SB5120 cablemodem and then to Cox Cable.
>
>On the LAN side I have DHCP disabled, and both computers have
>specific IPs assigned.

Why? DHCP works well, and helps to avoid problems.

>On the WAN side the router obtains a
>24-hour dynamic IP lease from Cox.
>
>Half way through the lease, the router apparently renews it, but in
>doing so drops the internet connection for a while. I just wondered
>if that's necessary.

It's not. How do you know the connection is dropping? What _exactly_
does that mean? Is it the cable modem losing the connection? The
router? One computer? Both computers?

Do you have the latest router firmware? Have you tried running DD-WRT
firmware in the router?

>I'm pretty sure that never happened when I had
>one computer connected directly to the cablemodem, and Windows
>handled the DHCP.

Try that now. The number of computers shouldn't matter.

>Couldn't the router just Renew instead of
>starting over?

Yes.

>Or, do I have something set wrong?

Possibly.

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