Waldothe3rd
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join:2009-02-16
Sun N Sand
 ·ViaTalk
| reply to deeguy1
Re: Verizon FIOS IP Address
My lease time appears to be set to a 24 hour period. If a different I/P is important to you, just turn off the box for 24+ hours. Impossible, I know. However, if you replace your box with a different router, you should receive a new address in ~45 minutes. This may help you. |
birdfeedr
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join:2001-08-11
Warwick, RI
 ·Verizon FIOS
| said by Waldothe3rd  :My lease time appears to be set to a 24 hour period. .... .... However, if you replace your box with a different router, you should receive a new address in ~45 minutes. This may help you. FiOS WAN IP is on a 2 hour lease, attempts to renew after 1 hour.
If you power off for at least as long as the time remaining on the current lease, then the longer you wait before powering on again increases your chance of getting a new IP. Part of that equation is what kind of churn there is on the network that would increase the chance someone else would pick up your old address before you power back up.
If your old address is still available, you're likely to pick it back up. I have an IP address that's almost like a static IP. I lost it once doing some network changes. Kept the new IP address for a couple of days at least. Went back to making more network changes and picked up the old one again which I still have today.
I think the context was Actiontec was replaced by another router, so MAC address changed. Three days later, put the Actiontec back in as primary. Old MAC address picked up old IP address.
Go figure.  |
