Googlefiber causing dissconect

[Red_Mage]

Hi, so I switched providers from uverse to googlefiber only to find out that I loose my connection once an hour. Apparently this is common for all googlefiber. I found a solution on fiber forum and it said that:

" Apparently Google Fiber has an automatic DHCP lease reset set to once every hour. You can't get rid of this, but you can extend the lease expiration from 60 minutes to 99999 minutes.

To do this visit your Advanced Network Settings > Services > IP Address Distribution. From here, click on the connection name (mine is Data LAN Bridge) and change the value listed for Lease Time in Minutes"

Going to try this and see if this works. Hope this helps someone else

[Mercy]

@Red_Mage

Besides the disconnects, how is GoogleFiber as a provider? I'm sure they have excellent speeds since it's dedicated fiberoptic, but I'm curious.

[Red_Mage]

So yea google fiber is amazing. With a cord its 100 gig connection. With wireless its about 60 to 80. Cord is the way to go for sure. But I would say the down side is that although it is super powerful connection the range on the connection is sub par. Its great in an apartment but if you have multi floors the connection has diminishing returns lol.

[Stealer]

Couldn't you use extenders though for the wifi?

[aRt)Y]

I would love to have google fiber. Consider yourself lucky. qq

[reborn2956]

" Apparently Google Fiber has an automatic DHCP lease reset set to once every hour. You can't get rid of this, but you can extend the lease expiration from 60 minutes to 99999 minutes.

If my math is correct, 99999 / 60 / 24 = 69.44 days

Wouldn't it be better to make it reset network around time you know for sure you won't play game? Cause with 99999 minutes, it's possible that it might dc you during a game where you least expected it. It would sucks to get banned by autoban in that way lol.

[Spzi]

I'm having a hard time believing that any provider disconnects their customers every hour. Nowaday's internet with all it's streaming services - interrupted, every hour? From which source did you get that information, Red_Mage?

I noticed you treat your wireless network at home and the optics cable as one "connection" - which doesn't make much sense. These are two networks which meet in your fibre optics router. One can be up while the other is down, and they have independend speeds. Your wifi range does not depend on wether you use copper landline or fibreoptics cable.

While searching for information about some Google Fibre DHCP lease, I noticed the router has rather bad reputation. As wireless networks are impaired by various sources present in a regular household anyways, it's no wonder that a cheap device shows some issues. There are numerous ways to improve the wireless network inside of your home, but they have nothing to do with the connection of your home to the outside internet.

[Red_Mage]

Spzi are you trolling me? Why the flock of Steven segals would I make this up? Yes what I said is true, you do get disconnected for like 3 seconds, does not effect anything but gaming so you might not notice it if you are reading an email, surfing the internet, or watching netflix. Because the network refreshers every hour unless you change the setting in your advanced my fiber network page there is no fix but to up the time. I got my info strait from the google fiber forum. If you google it you can probably find it if you read through the customer posts. Yes, dude, you can set it for how long a time you would like. I set mine for every 24 hours but in minuets. I got auto banned due to the every hour reset which is why I made this post so when people who get google fiber and play dota 1 they wont freak out because they cant figure why they are always getting a disconnect.

[Red_Mage]

But yea as for : "I noticed you treat your wireless network at home and the optics cable as one "connection" - which doesn't make much sense. These are two networks which meet in your fibre optics router. One can be up while the other is down, and they have independend speeds. Your wifi range does not depend on wether you use copper landline or fibreoptics cable."

I was saying that a cat5 connection(cord) to the router is a lot faster than a wireless connection (cordless). Yes I'm aware you can have both but the range of the wifi (cordless) is really bad.

[Spzi]

Hi Red_Mage. No, I'm not trolling you. I wasn't suggesting that you make something up - rather, that you maybe misunderstand something. No offense.
Maybe I misunderstood something - I thought you were talking about WAN-side issues - but now I rather assume the problem is/was LAN-side; concerning the connection between your computer and your router, all inside your home, with no Google involved (the router provided by them aside).

It's still strange that a DHCP lease timeout causes disconnects. DHCP is an automatic way to assign dynamic IP adresses to devices which may appear and disappear in the network at random times. So it makes sense to "forget" about a specific IP adress after a while, which is the DHCP lease timeout, because the device may no longer be in the network / active anyway.
Devices using DHCP send a DHCP renewal request to their network server long before their lease expires, and start looking for another server shortly before their time runs out.
This renewal process does not cause any disconnect. It's a simple "hi, I'm still there" without hanging up the phone. Though, if you don't say that you're still there for a set amount of time, the other side will eventually hang up, assuming you're no longer using the line.
It bothers me why it's not working at yours (and others). Apparently you're getting dynamic DHCP adresses in your local network, but their renewal fails.

Did you experience the same problem with all of your devices? It would be crazy to ship a router that does not support DHCP renewal. This is such a broad and basic standard. As it seems to be a communication problem between computer and router, it might be your machine isn't requesting to extend the DHCP lease properly. If you had a single device (another computer, laptop, tablet, smartphone, ...) without this issue, this would be a good hint.

[Red_Mage]

https://productforums.google.com/forum/ ... KAuirCI30c

Hey Spzi,
Thanks for your insight , I'm not very tech savy but I have some knowledge to get around. I'm not sure why the micro disconnection happens and I'm not sure why creating a static ip does not fix the problem but after I changed my DHCP setttings to one day instead of one hour there has been no problems. I linked one of the threads I read; and at the bottom of the thread is the solution that worked for me. Also when I called google one of tech guys said that blizzard and google were having issues and its related to a lot of blizzard games.

But yea Agreements Its 100 gig connection. When I speed test the dl is around the 920's . My upload is around the 940's. The routers range does suck and its not just my google router its a lot of peoples google routers.