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XP Pro failure to renew ip lease

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Fury190

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XP pro refuses to renew my ip lease. I am on a dhcp cable connection, that renews the ip lease every 8 hours. I am not on a network, do not have a lan, and do not hardware firewall.
I am in desperate need of a solution/workaround.
 
Did you power cycle your cable modem? Failure to renew a lease is usually a problem with the modem/router or a problem on your ISP's end.
 
If you cannot renew in that situation, and you have not changed anything on your end, it's likely the ISP's problem.
It happens.
 
ISPs screw up all the time. Mine has a DNS resolution problem they are clueless as how to fix (RoadRunner). At least they gave me a proxy server to connect to until they fix it. The only bad thing is that it is at half the speed (1200 kbps dwn). Normally I can double that.
 
Did you try unchecking the "Register this connection's addresses in DNS" checkbox in your TCP/IP properties? I've found that disabling that fixes most DHCP resolution problems in Windows 2000/XP.

By the way, if anyone has found a solution to my suspend/resume problem, please let me know...
 


<< By the way, if anyone has found a solution to my suspend/resume problem, please let me know... >>

What kind of resume problem do you have?
 


<< Did you try unchecking the "Register this connection's addresses in DNS" checkbox in your TCP/IP properties? I've found that disabling that fixes most DHCP resolution problems in Windows 2000/XP. By the way, if anyone has found a solution to my suspend/resume problem, please let me know... >>



Hmmm..........you may have something here.
 
Ok I am trouble shooting my issue. I am unsure of a couple of settings. Please help. Btw, its XP Pro..

In control panel/ Network settings/TCP/IP properties/Advanced/DNS Tab, Should: Register this connections addresses in DNS be checked or unchecked.

also on tab over. WINS: should enable LMHOSTS be checked. Below that. NETBIOS SETTINGS: Should Default be checked?


now its renewing every 4 hours. I will try your advice the next time it expires. But i know for sure its not an ISP issue.

 
Uncheck register this connections addresses in DNS. That should take care of most of your problems. LM hosts should be checked and try Netbios default.
 
ok i unchecked that, and it didnt help.

yes i did try ipconfig /release ipconfig/renew, and it also didnt work.

im loosing connectivity every 4 hours, because my isp's dhcp server renews the ip lease at that rate.

Please help!
 
If you are running XP, did you check to see if in hardware props your nic isn't set to shut down to save power by the operating system?
 
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