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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...
FURRYe38 Reserving the IP address within the DHCP pool doesn't fix the problem either. I had done that before I set the static IP for the playstation outside of the DHCP range. In most cases, the DHCP lease renew would just cause a minor lag spike. This is not a major issue for most games, but in the case of the game I'm trying to play it seems that as soon as there is any interruption the multiplayer connection is dropped.
Maybe it's unrelated (and a tangent), but I've had connectivity issues with this router since I bought it in May 2018. Then it was my Galaxy S7 would connect to the WiFi, but have no internet access. The solution I figured out to that was assign a reserved IP address in the router and configuring a static IP on my cell phone. This isn't an issue on the S10 however. Since then, I've just been assigning reserved IP addresses in the DHCP range until recently when I tried to do static outside the range to resolve an issue with the Playstation 4, but I can match up the connection drop with the DHCP lease renewal on the router.
Maybe what Netduma-Fraser suggested may be the better route in that I just turn off the DHCP server function and reserve the IP addresses where static isn't possible (or I cannot figure it out).
What happens if you downgrade FW versions?
Firmware Version 2.3.2.40 or
Firmware Version 2.3.2.32 or even very first version of FW?
BPowell wrote:FURRYe38 Reserving the IP address within the DHCP pool doesn't fix the problem either. I had done that before I set the static IP for the playstation outside of the DHCP range. In most cases, the DHCP lease renew would just cause a minor lag spike. This is not a major issue for most games, but in the case of the game I'm trying to play it seems that as soon as there is any interruption the multiplayer connection is dropped.
Maybe it's unrelated (and a tangent), but I've had connectivity issues with this router since I bought it in May 2018. Then it was my Galaxy S7 would connect to the WiFi, but have no internet access. The solution I figured out to that was assign a reserved IP address in the router and configuring a static IP on my cell phone. This isn't an issue on the S10 however. Since then, I've just been assigning reserved IP addresses in the DHCP range until recently when I tried to do static outside the range to resolve an issue with the Playstation 4, but I can match up the connection drop with the DHCP lease renewal on the router.
Maybe what Netduma-Fraser suggested may be the better route in that I just turn off the DHCP server function and reserve the IP addresses where static isn't possible (or I cannot figure it out).
- Yes that was what I was suggesting. In that case set the reserved IPs first and then disable DHCP so everything sustains a connection.
I was able to figure out how to assign a static IP for the printer. Didn't realize the printer had a web menu if you typed in the IP address.
So I turned off the DHCP server setting, assigned static IPs to all devices, and power cycled the router. I did some testing with the Playstation 4 on the home screen. If I go to Settings > Monitoring > Connection Status and click "Renew" I get the LAN cable disconnected message after about a 1-2 minute wait.
I guess there isn't a way around this other than just planning my gaming around the lease time. I'll sign up for the beta and see if that helps any.
- The DHCP that you renewed there was the IP given to the router itself not the devices so you should be okay with what you've done if it's to do with the LAN DHCP lease.
