[chambohambo]

Originally Posted by Dude111

I always thought you could set what you wanted.....

I have my lease set to 2 days...... Is there an advantage of a shorter time? (Or longer)

Originally Posted by Stuart

I don't think there is really an advantage (for the consumer at leas) to either, as Virgin tend (in my experience) to assign the same IP address again. One of our now ex members (can't recall who) described their IPs as "sticky" rather than "static" (which means you are assigned an IP that won't change) or "dyanamic" (where you just get the first Ip available, and it may change). With VM's system at the time, you were assigned a dynamic IP, but the system probably wouldn't change the IP assigned to you unless there was a problem .

Originally Posted by Uncle Peter

DHCP lease time is configured on the DHCP provider, not the client.

You can usually change the lease time in the DHCP configuration of your router at home for the local address your machine picks up on your home network. Not the lease assigned by your ISP to your public (WAN) address.

Originally Posted by pip08456

Perhaps not ex-member as I seem to recall ignitionet mentioning it quite a few yrs ago.

Originally Posted by Matthew

Are we talking external or internal IP addresses as been leased for an hour?

Originally Posted by Dude111

Thanx for explaining Uncle Peter

Hi,

Thanks for taking the time to read and respond to my post.