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XR500 Lease Time Issues
I am still having issues the lease time ending and causing loss of internet for at least a minute. Is there plans to update the firmware so I can control the time of this issue and the duration? ...
Wondering if you have found a fix for this, having similar issues with my D7000 but my lease time is set to 1 hour....doesn’t release and renew automatically so disconnects all devices for a minute or more, unless I watch it like a hawk and renew manually
- Joshwilmott11 I would suggest you post here: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-WiFi-Routers/bd-p/home-wifi-routers-nighthawk as that may be a different issue and it also uses different software to the XR range.
- Why can’t you update the firmware to allow the lease time to be changed by the admin? This is just a simple thing that cheap $35 routers have. I find it to be a deal breaker. If they don’t change this my next router will be another brand.
- That is for Netgear to do, I have mentioned this to them before so hopefully they will introduce this. As of right now you can renew the WAN lease in Settings > Monitoring > Connection Status but not the LAN as far as I can tell.
