Look for a program called Net Profile Switch. Helps you go from static to dynamic in seconds.
Steve Barnes RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Philip Dorr Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 1:08 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Changign DHCP timeout XP/WIn7 Put a static IP on the computer and access the Mikroik devices via MAC On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Justin Wilson <li...@mtin.net> wrote: > I just get sick of configuring units, such as mikrotik, and > switching devices and then having to wait until DHCP times out. > Pretty annoying when you have 50 Mikrotik boards to configure. Takes > longer for me to wait on DHCP than to drop the config file on it. > -- > Justin Wilson <j...@mtin.net> > http://www.mtin.net/blog – xISP News > http://www.twitter.com/j2sw – Follow me on Twitter Wisp Consulting – > Tower Climbing – Network Support > > > > ________________________________ > From: Mark Dueck <m...@netking.bz> > Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> > Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:39:25 -0600 > To: <wireless@wispa.org> > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Changign DHCP timeout XP/WIn7 > > LOL. if you have a Deliberant radio you might want to look into > increasing it to 5 minutes because that's how long they take to boot > up. I tried looking into it a while ago, but did not find anything that > easily. > > Had to tell my customers to wait 5 minutes to startup the computer > once they booted up the radio. > > Mark > > On 08/20/2010 09:42 AM, Justin Wilson wrote: > > Changign DHCP timeout XP/WIn7 I know a good majority of you deal > with the annoyance of waiting on Windows to timeout when there is no DHCP > server. > Anyone found a fix for this? Registry setting? Very annoying waiting > on windows to timeout DHCP when you know it will not get one. Sure a > static IP shortens this time, but can be a pain in itself. Looking > for a hack to shorten the windows DHCP timeout down to something sane. > > Ideas? > -- > Justin Wilson <j...@mtin.net> > > http://www.mtin.net/blog – xISP News > http://www.twitter.com/j2sw – Follow me on Twitter Wisp Consulting – > Tower Climbing – Network Support > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > ________________________________ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
