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Increasing DHCP lease time
I have only had my Orbi RBK50 for just over a week now.
Once I had the ethernet backhaul sorted (The trouble was there was a switch between the Orbi Router and Satelitte with other devices on too. ...
The pool should be as big as you need and just a bit over to allow for growth. 100 IPs is good enough for most homes.
I have also found iOS devices, and a few others, to be obnoxious in their constant DHCP requests. My solution was to give *every* device on my network a static address, or a reserved address if static wasn’t possible. (E.g., my HP OfficeJet printer forgets its static address after a power outage.) No guesswork, few DHCP requests, I know every device’s address, and my LAN runs great. “Set and forget” is my recommendation.
RocketSquirrel wrote:
I have also found iOS devices, and a few others, to be obnoxious in their constant DHCP requests. My solution was to give *every* device on my network a static address, or a reserved address if static wasn’t possible. (E.g., my HP OfficeJet printer forgets its static address after a power outage.) No guesswork, few DHCP requests, I know every device’s address, and my LAN runs great. “Set and forget” is my recommendation.
Thank you RocketSquirrel
I think I might move my DCHP pool up to x.x.x.100 and then move my Apple iOS/ATV devices to static IPs from the x.x.x.2x range.
