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BPowell
May 23, 2020Tutor
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...
Netduma-Fraser
May 26, 2020NetDuma Partner
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.
BPowell
May 27, 2020Tutor
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?