NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
Solved
ORBI DHCP
I have RBR750 with latest firmware. Few questions on DHCP: DHCP Lease time, how long is it? Does everyone make reservations for all thier devices? After I add a reservation do I need to hit...
stein97 wrote:I have RBR750 with latest firmware.
Few questions on DHCP:
DHCP Lease time, how long is it?
Does everyone make reservations for all thier devices?
After I add a reservation do I need to hit apply and reboot the router or does the reservation take effect?
I realize that I cannot change the DNS ip on the DHCP as this would defeat the purpose of the Netgear Armour feature.
thanks
You can use the default DHCP lease time with no problem. The Orbi usually uses the same IP address for the device, once registering it.
Some people make IP reservations, others don't. My practice is I make reservations for cameras, some gaming systems and troubled PCs, that keep wanting to default to a Microsoft 69 IP address.
Follow the instructions when adding an IP reservation. The Orbi will reboot if needed.
I don't use Armor, as I feel it slows down the system. I prefer to apply protection to each device that needes it. Primarily working with Windows OS, I use Windows Security as it is as good as anything on the market, rarely gives false positives, and is updated more often than most 3rd party protection. Of course businness environments may be a different situation.
stein97 wrote:I have RBR750 with latest firmware.
Few questions on DHCP:
DHCP Lease time, how long is it?
Does everyone make reservations for all thier devices?
After I add a reservation do I need to hit apply and reboot the router or does the reservation take effect?
I realize that I cannot change the DNS ip on the DHCP as this would defeat the purpose of the Netgear Armour feature.
thanks
You can use the default DHCP lease time with no problem. The Orbi usually uses the same IP address for the device, once registering it.
Some people make IP reservations, others don't. My practice is I make reservations for cameras, some gaming systems and troubled PCs, that keep wanting to default to a Microsoft 69 IP address.
Follow the instructions when adding an IP reservation. The Orbi will reboot if needed.
I don't use Armor, as I feel it slows down the system. I prefer to apply protection to each device that needes it. Primarily working with Windows OS, I use Windows Security as it is as good as anything on the market, rarely gives false positives, and is updated more often than most 3rd party protection. Of course businness environments may be a different situation.
Out of the box the DHCP has had issue, that is why I was wondering about the lease time, Chromebook and Ring Camera got the same IP. Normally this would not have been an issue but with Virtual Learning in full swing having this stupid issue was not fun.
Armour is free for a year so I will see how it goes. I ahve not installed it on any devices I am assuming that the Router is doing DNS check on the site and blocking that way.
If I feel the performance is lacking I'll just move over to Pi-hole for DNS & DHCP.
The Xbox had issues with the default Orbi DNS, had to change to 9.9.9.9 and all was good. Once again I am assuming Armour is doing look up on thier system and not the ISP.
So i had asked about reservations is there is an apply option on the LAN setting page. Was wondering if I need to press apply to commit the DHCP reservations.
Also I think it pretty stupid to have to reboot router to commit DHCP changes........... Just saying.
thanks
Usually the Orbi DNS is the ISP DNS, so you may want to check with your ISP why you are having issues with the Xbox.
Why did you pick Quad9 for DNS, or is that your ISP? You could run DNSbench and find a faster DNS serverthat will work.
Come up with an IP scheme and convert everything to static, by reserving the IP to the MAC address.
Most routers will reboot after DNS and Static IP changes to re-write the tables.
I use either Quad9 or google, for the xbox I Quad9 because it responded faster.
thanks
