Netgear draft-n router has to be rebooted everyday to work

What determines the lease time ? can you alter the timing ?

Hi, I'd check if there is any external interference like cordless phone. Try different channel(1, 6, or 11 is good choice). And I'd make sure the AC power adapter is A-OK. Try another one if you can.

Tony Hwang:

I'd check if there is any external interference like cordless phone. Try different channel(1, 6, or 11 is good >choice). And I'd make sure the AC power adapter is A-OK. Try another one if you can

Yes there is one cordless phone in the room, and I will try to change the channel (it is set on "auto" at the moment), but I doubt that it's the cause of the problem as it's hardly ever used (only once or twice a week). I'm using Netgear's power supply that was delivered with the router, but I'll check if I can find another one. What's an A-OK power supply by the way?

atec 77:

There's a page on the router manager that lets me check the connection status, it also describes when the DHCP lease was obtained and expires. Here's what it shows:

Lease Obtained 0 days,1 hrs,30 minutes Lease Expires 0 seconds

And it doesn't seem to change when time goes by. When I try to manually renew or release the DHCP lease, no connection status items actually change. I don't know exactly what determines the lease time, as I am not familiar with the lease concept. However, after rebooting the router, the lease status changed. "Lease expires" seemed to count down the minutes.

Lease Obtained 0 days,1 hrs,29 minutes Lease Expires 0 days,1 hrs,19 minutes

And this time, I could release the DHCP lease; every connection status item was reset (everything showed a zero). Renewing the DHCP lease reset the lease timers to 1hr30minutes. I hope this helps solving the problem. Thanks for your help.

I believe that leasing is your problem , I don't have an answer but wish you luck .

Its unclear which lease time you mean.

Your router is getting an IP from your ISP and the lease time for this address is irrelevant - its also defined by your ISP so you can't change it.

Your clients are getting an IP from your router, and this lease time is defined by your router config. However its also irrelevant as the clients will automatically renew the lease when it expires.

I think you may need to re-describe the problem.