Lease time (F.A.O. Chris Pettitt)

[#1]

Quote from: Chris

OK, I was just reasserting it as this thread still seems to be asking the same question?

Because I haven't had a definite answer.

[#2]

There is no lease time, if PPP is up and remains up the IP remains allocated. Once PPP drops the IP goes back into the pool for reuse.

[#3]

Quote from: Keeef

Because I haven't had a definite answer.

I was hoping someone would.

[#4]

Quote from: Chris

There is no lease time

Thanks. That answers that then.
Would it be possible to allocate one? I think this has been answered above, but not sure if it was an official answer or just another guess? 

[#5]

That was an official answer!
There is no need for leases. Using leases would increase overheads. If there was a large scale outage on the BT network which dropped thousands of users and they were all trying to reconnect at the same time (which does happen occasionally) it would be horrendous.
For the very, very low percentage of users who need fixed IPs there is the option available.
I'm totally baffled as to what you think having leases would achieve. It wouldn't reduce the number of disconnects and it only slightly decreases the number of times the IP would change. For those that want to be able to access their home network from elsewhere, free options such as DynDNS are available.

[#6]

Quote from: jelv

That was an official answer!

It's difficult to tell. 

[#7]

Not really....just look at the poster's signature or their avatar.

[#8]

Quote from: Strat

just look at the poster's signature or their avatar.

Like the previous poster who's post has been deleted you mean?

[#9]

Quote from: jelv

slightly decreases the number of times the IP would change.

So solving my problem.

[#10]

One of your "problems", the one in this thread can be solved by you paying for a fixed IP address.

[#11]

Quote from: Anotherone

the one in this thread can be solved by you paying for a fixed IP address.

Unfortunately that is not available.

[#12]

I haven't actually seen a clear description of what your issue actually is with the IP address changing!

[#13]

Quote from: jelv

I haven't actually seen a clear description of what your issue

Have a look back to page 1.

[#14]

Which doesn't explain your issue with the IP address changing - and please stop using the quote button as it is really irritating and unnecessary

[#15]

I had. Are you deliberately trying to wind us all up because quite frankly a lot of us are getting totally fed up with all this.
What stops working or can you not do when the IP address changes?