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thomasrussell45
Aspirant
May 14, 2017

C6300BD vs iPhone 6S - constantly need to renew DHCP lease

I live in Australia and have recently signed up for Telstra Cable. They sent me a Netgear C6300BD modem/router. It works great except in one respect. When connecting to the router via Wi-Fi with my...
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DarrenM
Sr. NETGEAR Moderator
May 17, 2017

Hello thomasrussell45

 

Have you tried to reserve the IP address for the iphones?

 

DarrenM

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thomasrussell45
Aspirant
May 17, 2017

Hi Darren. I discovered that one of my other two access points (I am not sure which) was causing the problem. I discovered this by speculatively disabling the other two APs to see what would happen, and lo and behold the problem disappeared.

The flip side is that my Wi-Fi coverage is now significantly reduced, as I am running the whole house off one AP. Eventually, when I have more time to spare, I will bring up the other APs again, one by one, and see what happens. I assume the same thing will happen, in which case I'll tinker with the relevant router settings and try the solution you have suggested (thanks for that).