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Hi BearCat, first off Thanks for the Comments, I was asking for some. There are quite a few issues here, and I expect it will take some time to work my way through them all. There are several folks discussing similar issues in various Threads which I have been commenting on also.
On the DHCP/IP# issue, the ISP that I am on uses DHCP as well. ISP's were planning on Users connecting to the Net for a few hours each day or so, then turning off their Computer. The ISP could then "Reuse" the IP# for someone else. However, ISP's claim that "Broadband Connections" are always on ie. 24/7/52. So what I did was to put up a Server on my connection and leave it running all the time. At this point, it still has the same IP# that it had more than 2 Years ago.
Another thing that has come along in the past year are "Home Firewall/Router" boxes. I have a couple of them which are connected to an ADSL/Cable modem. I leave the Modem and Firewall boxes on all the time. In that case the Firewall box gets a "Dynamic IP#" and "Keeps" it for months or more. One specific box that I experimented with is the D-Link 704. The Firmware code in this box obtains an IP# from the DHCP Service, and when it comes to "Renew" time it will "Decline" a different IP# if that is what the Service comes up with. The box will keep doing a "Renew" until it gets back the "old" IP# it had before. It has been successful at this even after a 4 hour ISP outage. The only time the D-Link box did not "Win" is when my ISP changed their Class "A" subnet from 216.x.x.x to 142.x.x.x.
I expect if I can "Deal" with DHCP, then other folks can also. Worth a Try. It may solve some problems for you.
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