Is there a way to automatically get the Z100G to reboot itself at a specific time and thus force it to get a new IP address? If not, this might be a feature that could be added in a future release.

The reason I ask is that my ISP does, and has been doing, things to prevent abuse or throttle use of specific features. One was, since changed, was to count the number of email messages since getting the IP address. Too many and they block all outgoing e-mail. If you keep an IP address for weeks, as my system tends to do, you get your link throttled or blocked for some of these services.

As a side note; I have noted that the number of blocked connection attempts can rise or fall dramatically when I get a new IP address. I suspect that when there are a lot of blocked connection attempts on a NEW IP address it had been used by a system where BOT or other malware infected computer was.

Though that is understandable, most ISPs allocate IP addresses by MAC address registration, so as long as you keep connecting the device they give you the same IP address. I wouldn't suspect that an ISP that would do what your talking about would make it so simple that you just reboot to clear the problem. For example, I have AT&T DSL and my power has probably gone out here several times (thus rebootign the router) but I still have the same IP address reassigned each time I restart.

I do not get the same IP address at each reboot. They use something other than the MAC address to identify my circuit. Likely something in the DSL modem they provided.

Thanks for responding!!!

That's strange that they would throttle your email and then let you get around it by rebooting all the time. What do they tell you is the purpose of the throttle?

Originally my ISP just counted the numbers of messages you sent without a check against the time your router had the same IP address. It took that happening twice before I caught on. When I asked about it and mentioned what I found, I never got an answer, but the problem has never repeated either. I also asked their tech support about something when I was checking something else and they said they knew nothing about what their operational people were doing about throttling and other such issues. From this I have assumed that when I ask about these sorts of things, I would not get an answer.

I would guess that they are trying to prevent spamming and other things form the black hats.

Thanks for the reply.