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Evercub
Feb 16, 2022Initiate
PLW1000 Ignores DHCP lease time
Two people have raised this problem in the last two years, but the discussion was closed due to inactivity without a solution being suggested. They reported they were using PLW1000V2. I have a PLW1...
michaelkenward
Feb 17, 2022Guru - Experienced User
Nice bit of research. Pity that the manual for these things is so useless.
Did you also Reserve the IP address on the router?
Evercub
Feb 18, 2022Initiate
I'm using a BT Home Hub 5. DHCP configuration is somewhat limited.
It seems the best you can do is to limit the range of DHCP addresses that the router can allocate, and then configure a static IP address for the PLW1000 (and any other devices needing a static address) that's outside this range, but in the same subnet.