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Disable auto change IP address
I've seen similar posts about a way to disable the auto change IP address before. They've been brushed off. The 'answers' and 'solutions' are wrong. There is an issue with the product. Every month wh...
This issue has been present in all versions of the firmware I've touched (at least 2 updates I can remember off the top of my head besides the firmware it came with out of the box). I simply need the ability to turn of this nanny ip conflict detection service. I don't want it. It breaks my device and incorrectly detects conflicts when there are none in actuality. Everything else works swimmingly. Thinking about it, statically assigning the IP address will probably prevent the thing from going into stupid mode. I'll still be stuck with a bad connection monthly that I'll have to intervene and change it to another IP.
To get an actual static IP from the ISP I've got to upgrade to business class. This doubles my price, cuts my bandwidth in half, but garantees the bandwidth alotment - of which I've never had a problem. This is not a solution.
The product needs to be fixed. The ability to disable a service that causes breakage is what is necessary. If I can't get some support from Netgear on the idea, I'll simply change my positive Amazon reviews to something negative and move to another vendor that won't lose its mind monthly.
So, the Orbi is going crazy once a month (a) because the ISP is literally "restarting" the modem, and (b) the ISP has put the modem in Bridge Mode and the user cannot take it out?
Wow. I did not realize that ISP's were resetting our modems every month, and the modem could be giving out goofy temporary DHCP assignments. (I had thought that when the modem was resetting it didn't talk to the LAN side at all.) My modem's DHCP lease lasts one hour, so the ISP has multiple opportunities to change the public IP every day. I guess the reason my Orbi doesn't go crazy is that I am not in "Bridge Mode."
My Orbi also gets a DHCP lease good for one hour, so I would think that in (30 minutes, correct?) the Orbi would ask to renew the lease, get the new one, and things would straighten out? Or, does the modem in Bridged Mode give that temporary IP out with a longer lease?
So, I am wondering what issue is going to push me into changing to Bridge Mode? (I am not eager to fall into a monthly recurring nightmare.) Is it VPN? Port forwarding? Performance?