Topic: Losing static IP address in Windows 7 after sleep

[jlykos]

Hey, thanks for the responses.  I think that the second idea that you mentioned: creating a DCHP reservation in the router did the job.  I hope that it will manage this over the next few days.  The first suggestion was the thing that absolutely refused to work.

All I wanted to do was to use Utorrent correctly and the UPnP thing did not work either.  I tried to activate it in the router and I could not connect to any internet pages then.

Thanks again for everything!  Hopefully this will do the job.

[crazifyngers]

jlykos,
If you have not resolved the problem are you using access connections?  This program will take over your network configuration and not allow your network setup to "stick."  As far as the ip address changing it is true that ip addresses will release and renew if you do not have a reservation but computers request that their leases be renewed hours before their lease expires.  this causes the lease to be renewed before the lease expires so you will have the same ip address.  but when you wake up you computer needs to get a new ip address this tell me that your computer is probably asleep.  make sure that is turned off when plugged in.

[if_then_else]

Hey, thanks for the responses.  I think that the second idea that you mentioned: creating a DCHP reservation in the router did the job.  I hope that it will manage this over the next few days.  The first suggestion was the thing that absolutely refused to work.

All I wanted to do was to use Utorrent correctly and the UPnP thing did not work either.  I tried to activate it in the router and I could not connect to any internet pages then.

Thanks again for everything!  Hopefully this will do the job.

I don't know if someone else has suggested this before, but did you already think about using dynamic DNS?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DynDNS

There are providers that will operate a basic service for free (e.g. http://www.dyndns.com/).

[phanophish]

Hey, thanks for the responses.  I think that the second idea that you mentioned: creating a DCHP reservation in the router did the job.  I hope that it will manage this over the next few days.  The first suggestion was the thing that absolutely refused to work.

All I wanted to do was to use Utorrent correctly and the UPnP thing did not work either.  I tried to activate it in the router and I could not connect to any internet pages then.

Thanks again for everything!  Hopefully this will do the job.

I don't know if someone else has suggested this before, but did you already think about using dynamic DNS?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DynDNS

There are providers that will operate a basic service for free (e.g. http://www.dyndns.com/).

The issue was not with the external IP of his router, it was with the internal IP that his client Pc was getting on the private side of his NAT router.  In order to forward the Bittorrent ports for best torrent performance he needed a consistent IP address for the Pc that would be running the torrent client.