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Originally Posted by homealone
during the setup wizard the router will have probably been configured to be the 'DHCP server' for your sisters system
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/DHCP.html
but a 'lease' of your address only lasts so long & has to be periodically 'renewed', so if the router is offline when the renewal transaction is supposed to occur, you will lose the IP you have been assigned and the connection will drop.
- i.e. try leaving the router & modem permanently plugged in & see if the problem goes away  |
Cheers pal, will do
---------- Post added at 21:45 ---------- Previous post was at 20:47 ----------
Just text me sis. She says she forgot to unplug the router on sunday, said it was red hot and it still didnt connect?, told her to try it again tonight (make sure she can connect b4 logging off). But on a side note been into my netgear routers webpage and one of the options says
Use Router as DHCP Server with a tick in the box. Forgive my ignorance but what would happen if i unticked this box?. Ive noticed that sometimes my connection on the laptop drops off and unplugging the router seems to fix it for me also
