The WAN lease is your router if you have one to the ISP. If you are using a modem with its connection details on your PC, then yes.

Your PC connecting on the LAN to the router will be issued with a similar lease by the router and will start at the time you boot the PC. A mobile phone that auto connects I would expect to get a lease from when it makes its connection.

Thanks Gari - I was posting my reply before your post appeared. That explains the 1-day that confused me.

There has to be a WAN one of 72 hours. I think it's too much of a coincidence for it not to be that.

If its a router thing, why would 3 users so far have the issue after changing ISP? This has never been an issue before and nothing has changed my end (seems i cant change it anyway as there isnt an option to)

Router is Netgear DG834Gv5

Edited by bobble_bob (Mon 10-Feb-14 19:42:54)

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Hmm, another exactly 3 day connection like me and Gari. Interesting. Yea ive had a few of those short ones, although my router log doesnt always pick them up, so not sure if to believe they always exist

I can see a couple of occasions where this has happened on my own connection and once on my parent's (long line, lots of resyncs anyway). One's a D834GT in modem mode with an Asus RT-N56U and the other's some D-Link modem plugged into a pfSense box. Different setups...

The WAN one is issued by the ISP's router, which is what has changed, but I expect to show in the user's router's GUI. It would be the same for all users and routers, and I know you can see it at least one of the routers I cited.

Can you see it in the 585? The v5 has a Conexant chipset so may not have the same GUI as the v4.

As Gari said, the ipconfig is showing the LAN ones issued by the user's router to the LAN devices.

Cant see anything on the Netgear v5. If its the ISP's router that is issuing the WAN, could it be their lease that is incorrectly setup so thats its not renewing it correctly and booting people off the network every 72 hours?

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If its the ISP's router that is issuing the WAN (insert - )lease

No "If" about it .

could it be their lease that is incorrectly setup so thats its not renewing it correctly and booting people off the network every 72 hours?

Yes, that is what I am suggesting may be the problem.

Edited by RobertoS (Mon 10-Feb-14 21:14:12)

Thanks. Just need coms to realise this, which may not be an easy task going on some peoples experience of CS

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Thanks. Just need coms to realise this, which may not be an easy task going on some peoples experience of CS

May be best to PM one of the COMS guys about it and see their comments.

It may be doing it correctly, but only at the end of the 72 hours. As I said, O2 used to renew at half way through the licence, as if it failed the existing lease continued in force. So the renewing system got two chances .

Now wait! There was a problem at one time with certain routers. I'll see what I can dig out.