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Vectracious
6th October 2012, 02:01 PM
Anyone have any tips on making the DHCP server on this POS more reliable.

When I left it on full automatic mode, it would decide to make some addresses static and not others.

You cannot change the lease time to be more than 24 hours other than to make it permanent.

Even though the leases are for 24 hours, it will still give out the same IP address to different devices.

MAC's seem to be spoofed automatically and for no reason - found 3 instances of the one laptop in the device section.

When you make the addresses permanent, if an item goes into hibernation - when it wakes back up again, it won't connect properly, which means you need to restart the router to make everything work.

Ready to just go and buy a wireless router and just use this as a modem........

hazrd
6th October 2012, 09:10 PM
I have a feeling this might be telstra related mate

For the last week my Netgear CG3100 (also a bigpond supplied router) has been acting up the same as your TG782T and when I check the log it says that the DHCP release failed, forcing me to do it manually for 6 devices

Vectracious
6th October 2012, 09:14 PM
Hmmmm, so do we wait and see whether it just gets sorted out?

It is a horrible bit of equipment. Even my old netcomm adsl router from 2004 is a hell of a lot more reliable than the Thomson.

hazrd
6th October 2012, 09:35 PM
I think its the fact that telstra have ****ed around with it and made it worse

This is my second one. Ill give it another couple days then call and report how shit it is. Ill just go buy my own if the next one Shits itself. Although decent cable routers are hard to come by

Vectracious
6th October 2012, 09:48 PM
I wonder if its possible to reflash it with standard firmware rather than the telstra crap.

hazrd
6th October 2012, 09:58 PM
Probably could. It might be on WP somewhere. Problem with mine is they disabled the USB media function which Shits me a bit

hazrd
29th October 2012, 07:33 PM
Just touching back on this one p2...

Telstra came out and surprisingly, it was the plugs at the end of the fibre cable were rooted. After changing them it's been running perfect for the last 2 weeks

Vectracious
30th October 2012, 12:14 PM
Fibre cable???

hazrd
30th October 2012, 05:23 PM
Brain fart

The connection points between the modem and wall

Vectracious
30th October 2012, 05:57 PM
I've changed those cables several times, not sure how that would affect the stupid DHCP on this thing though..... *confused*

hazrd
30th October 2012, 06:27 PM
I've changed those cables several times, not sure how that would affect the stupid DHCP on this thing though..... *confused*

They were my exact thoughts. Once the connections were changed, bingo. All good. nfi how that fixed it, but it did