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IP renewal problem!

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Testlund:
Well, you CAN change the time for it in the registry, it's just that my changes don't get saved. The current value for 'Lease' is 3600 (3600 seconds is 1 hour). So it seems like an evidence to me that it's my computer that has been set to try to renew my IP every hour. It doesn't mean I get a new IP, because for that I have to turn off my computer for awhile. That is determined by my ISP's server.
So I want to know if there is any special procedure for changing things in the registry other than just click OK and close after you've made a change.

Peter:

--- Quote from: Testlund ---So I want to know if there is any special procedure for changing things in the registry other than just click OK and close after you've made a change.
--- End quote ---
Sorry for not clarifying that one. There isn't a special procedure, it works with just pressing ok.

I think that specific register-key is reset at every computer restart, through.

As for refreshing IP, that you return the same IP as you had depends on the server. A simple IP-refresh could change IP's.

Testlund:
I've found out it's actually the renewal procedure that resets the registry to 1 hour lease time. The number that I changed in the registry stayed put until I connected to the internet by plugging back the cable. Something has altered this procedure slightly in the last year to cause a disruption in the data transfer process while there is a renewal process at the same time.
I have no clue what because I haven't touched anything that I'm aware of that would have anything to do with this. Maybe a reinstall of the system or a driver update could fix this, but I'm not going to mess with that now when everything else is working. It's just a bit annoying, that's all.

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