Network gateway goes after 24 hours

[SteveW]

Now I realise that I have changed my PC set up, ie isp on isdn to
broadband.

I seem to lose connection to my hub 24 hours after system is booted.
it doesn't matter whether it's ben idle for ages or not.
I suspected my browser but a clean boot and no browser use..
still got the same problem.

After a reboot - its perfect, but is consistantly droping
after 24 hours.

I haven't had to reboot the actual hub for ages
and it quite happily reports an uptime of over a week
If the hub went offline - fairenough, but it doesn't
it actualy seems that the network gateway settings get lost

I had this sort of problem a few years back with win 98,
but this is the first time with win2k.

Any ideas ?

 

[Steve Parry]

In

Now I realise that I have changed my PC set up, ie isp on isdn to
broadband.

I seem to lose connection to my hub 24 hours after system is booted.
it doesn't matter whether it's ben idle for ages or not.
I suspected my browser but a clean boot and no browser use..
still got the same problem.

After a reboot - its perfect, but is consistantly droping
after 24 hours.

I haven't had to reboot the actual hub for ages
and it quite happily reports an uptime of over a week
If the hub went offline - fairenough, but it doesn't
it actualy seems that the network gateway settings get lost

I had this sort of problem a few years back with win 98,
but this is the first time with win2k.

Any ideas ?

Check in internet explorer > tools > Internet Options > Connections

If you're using broadband there does'nt need to be any settings in the dial
up box so you can remove the and set it to "Never dial a connection"

You may find the dial up connection had a time out if you check its Settings

Advanced > Disconnect settings

However, removing them should solve it.

 

[SteveW]

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Check in internet explorer > tools > Internet Options > Connections

If you're using broadband there does'nt need to be any settings in the dial
up box so you can remove the and set it to "Never dial a connection"

You may find the dial up connection had a time out if you check its Settings

However, removing them should solve it.

Cheers, of course I don't use IE - and then I remembered the Broadband
Install package did modify home page on IE and uses it
....

Checked that out thanks for the tip

I'll feed back in 24 hours...

 

[SteveW]

Cheers, of course I don't use IE - and then I remembered the Broadband
Install package did modify home page on IE and uses it
...

Checked that out thanks for the tip

I'll feed back in 24 hours...

.... DHCP leasing I think

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.64
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : 20 03 2007 02:50:29
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : 21 03 2007 02:50:29

Boot time 2:50 yesterday, so in 1:20 it will lose lease

Surely this doesn't happen to everybody on Broadband (BT)

I wouldn't mind so much when I was on Win98 - it rarely lasted a day

But Win2k and later ones are reliable enough not to need re-booting.

Perhaps I just need to disconnect and reconnect from the hub - without
rebooting the hub or my pc.

Off to try ..

 

[SteveW]

... DHCP leasing I think

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.64
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : 20 03 2007 02:50:29
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : 21 03 2007 02:50:29

Boot time 2:50 yesterday, so in 1:20 it will lose lease

Surely this doesn't happen to everybody on Broadband (BT)

I wouldn't mind so much when I was on Win98 - it rarely lasted a day

But Win2k and later ones are reliable enough not to need re-booting.

Perhaps I just need to disconnect and reconnect from the hub - without
rebooting the hub or my pc.

Off to try ..

seems my hub (dhcp server) is defaulting to 1 day
and fails to response to ipconfig /renew

off to make phone call in the morning...

 

[SteveW]

seems my hub (dhcp server) is defaulting to 1 day
and fails to response to ipconfig /renew

off to make phone call in the morning...

BT HomeHub has no facility to alter the 24 hour lease !!

Solution - allocate permanent ip addresses

Soory to be the only one posting on this - but it may be of help to
somebody else