[PLUG] Comcast lease problem

[Brian Beattie]

On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 05:36 -0700, poor02 at bejay.com wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone else was having this problem. Recently, my ip lease 
> with Comcast is only for an hour, instead of several days, and it won't 
> auto-renew itself. I called tech support, which was useless. Also, the 
> gateway address I keep getting changes, from 71.193.182.1 to 71.236.172.1 to 
> 67.160.144.1 to 67.189.90.1.
> 
> Nothing in my setup is changed. I have a 3com hub. Everything works fine for 
> as long as the lease runs.

My first reaction is that Comcast is doing this on purpose to stop
people from running servers and maybe to mess with torrent as well.
That may be giving Comcast too much credit.

> 
> Barbara
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