[Fm904]

Yes, It may take me a moment to sign out of a game or but if in I’m in email or Firefox I can ping my ISP and get an “unavailable” signal but if I tried to type in a url to ping the connection has reset. In logs the disconnect seems to last 1-2 seconds.

[Fm904]

1. Approximately every 12 hours usually – i have noticed shorter periods and wonder if a lease period is based on accumulated online hours. So if I played an online game for 5-6 hours or longer then the reset would come sooner than if I just surfed the net for a few minutes a day. i am still learning about DNS, etc.

2. No other devices are connected to the network.
3. No devices use WIFI. Computer uses wired network and all WIFI settings are off on router and computer. I may be able to test WIFI in to future but can’t at the moment.

[Fm904]

Good information here but …
1) My old router was disconnected and I don’t have a smart phone or wifi so i could not access the info supplied above. At a bare minimum the first four lines should be printed on that sheet given with the router.
2) The router I bought is a pcWRT CF-WR619AC and the info supplied on the sticker stuck to the bottom is wrong. Instead of http://192.168.10.1 it said http://192.168.0.1 like my old router and that number didn’t show anything in my browser. And my browser kept connecting to your website when I tried the pcwrt one.

The good news is that once I was able to check these forums I was quickly able to set up the router and eventually got my internet back.

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