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On 01/04/12 11:23, Julian Hall wrote: > Hi Neil, > > I had issues with my phone - Windows Phone 7 - of a similar nature. > What was happening was that every time the phone was turned off I lost > connectivity to my router and it wouldn't come back no matter what I > did. It turned out that HTC in their all-too-finite wisdom had screwed > up an update with the result that every time the phone was turned off it > changed the MAC address! Yes, immensely stupid I know, but they did it > and it took them a couple of months to bother to fix it, however they > did eventually. > > Here's something you could try. In my router I can assign fixed IP > addresses to specific MACs, so that for instance my NAS box always has > the same IP on the network. It could be that the DHCP lease is running > out on your phone's IP and for some reason it's not refreshing > properly. Rebooting the router may be pushing a new IP to the phone > rather than wait for it to ask for one. Assigning your phone a fixed IP > would solve that, if indeed that is the issue. > > Kind regards, > > Julian > I have had a look at my router details (Netgear DG834G) and it says that the nternet IP address is fetched dynamically from the ISP. There is a slot under it for setting up a static IP address but how do I know what to put there, or do I have to organise that with my ISP? And what are the implications of do such a thing? Thanks for the reply, Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq