Is there a way I can change the XR500 DHCP lease renewal time to be something longer than 1 or 8 hours? It's really inconvient when I'm trying to play competitive multiplayer games to have the connection drop in the middle of a long session and I lose my progress (and more importantly, my time). I have the most recent firmware for the XR500 (v2.3.2.56). I don't understand why this isn't able to be changed or even why it isn't set to some statistically low usage time (i.e. early AM).

As an update: Setting a static IP address outside of the DHCP range on the game console does not fix this issue. When the DHCP lease was renewed it broke the connection. For playing a game like Gran Tourismo Sport, this means the multiplayer session immediately ends and the game becomes unresponsive (having to force close the game to continue playing it). This is the result of the stupidly short 8 hour DHCP lease time. An ethernet LAN connection should be about a week lease. Wifi is the only part that makes sense to have a short lease time, but I don't even have enough devices to use up 253 (by default) IP addresses.

And if you set an IP address reservation for your device with in the IP address pool? What happens if you downgrade FW versions?Firmware Version 2.3.2.40 orFirmware Version 2.3.2.32

If you don't have many devices and it's not too much hassle try disabling DHCP altogether and assigning IPs. You may need to do this on the devices themselves to get a connection.

Netduma-Fraser Unless I'm missing something, I cannot assign a static IP to my HP Envy 5500 wireless printer. Are you suggesting that I just disable DHCP and then reserve the IP address in the router for that device/MAC Address?

FURRYe38 Reserving the IP address within the DHCP pool doesn't fix the problem either. I had done that before I set the static IP for the playstation outside of the DHCP range. In most cases, the DHCP lease renew would just cause a minor lag spike. This is not a major issue for most games, but in the case of the game I'm trying to play it seems that as soon as there is any interruption the multiplayer connection is dropped. Maybe it's unrelated (and a tangent), but I've had connectivity issues with this router since I bought it in May 2018. Then it was my Galaxy S7 would connect to the WiFi, but have no internet access. The solution I figured out to that was assign a reserved IP address in the router and configuring a static IP on my cell phone. This isn't an issue on the S10 however. Since then, I've just been assigning reserved IP addresses in the DHCP range until recently when I tried to do static outside the range to resolve an issue with the Playstation 4, but I can match up the connection drop with the DHCP lease renewal on the router. Maybe what Netduma-Fraser suggested may be the better route in that I just turn off the DHCP server function and reserve the IP addresses where static isn't possible (or I cannot figure it out).

How to Change DHCP Lease Time - Nighthawk XR500

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BPowell
Tutor
May 24, 2020
As an update:

Setting a static IP address outside of the DHCP range on the game console does not fix this issue. When the DHCP lease was renewed it broke the connection.

For playing a game like Gran Tourismo Sport, this means the multiplayer session immediately ends and the game becomes unresponsive (having to force close the game to continue playing it).

This is the result of the stupidly short 8 hour DHCP lease time. An ethernet LAN connection should be about a week lease. Wifi is the only part that makes sense to have a short lease time, but I don't even have enough devices to use up 253 (by default) IP addresses.
- FURRYe38
  Guru - Experienced User
  May 26, 2020
  And if you set an IP address reservation for your device with in the IP address pool?
  
  What happens if you downgrade FW versions?
  Firmware Version 2.3.2.40 or
  Firmware Version 2.3.2.32
  - Netduma-Fraser
    NetDuma Partner
    May 26, 2020
    If you don't have many devices and it's not too much hassle try disabling DHCP altogether and assigning IPs. You may need to do this on the devices themselves to get a connection.
MR_Cummings
Aspirant
Aug 05, 2020
I've been having this issue as well. You'll be somewhat relieved for me to inform you that its not the router lease time affecting you. In fact, your router is not the root cause if your dropped connections.

If your connection is dropping for a couple seconds or less than a minute or so, then whats really happening is you ISP communication is having difficulty transmitting the signal to you. You're pretty much right on the threshold of a reachable signal. Although you may be on the threshold, a typical transmit level tends to fluctuate up and down due to one or many different factors... traffic utilization in your area could be one issue, or even the time of day when it gets hot or cold as the center conductor expands and retracts within the coax cable that your ISP is being transmitted from, assumes that you're not on fiber. Google T3-T4 timeout, you'll see a lot of your issues relate to these terms, which indicates that your ISP transit levels are too low and you need to call them out to your house and get crackin. Make sure you mention T3 and T4 timeouts, they'll know what it means.
- MR_Cummings
  Aspirant
  Aug 05, 2020
  I forgot to clarify somethin.. so your lease change logs show up because of your lost connections. Everytime you lose connection, your router is forced to obtain a new lease again because it cannot see the old lease anymore. I hope that clears everything up

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