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How to Change DHCP Lease Time - Nighthawk XR500
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 connec...
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 or
Firmware 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).
What happens if you downgrade FW versions?
Firmware Version 2.3.2.40 or
Firmware Version 2.3.2.32 or even very first version of FW?
BPowell wrote: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).
