I hit start, down, 1-8, enter and I'm ready to go in <5 seconds.

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On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 5:37 PM, John Valenti <vale...@lir.msu.edu> wrote:
> Justin,
> I would think you would want to have it setup to just switch quickly to a 
> static address via profile or script or something.
>
> But perhaps another solution would be to use a switch or hub? If your windows 
> computer is plugged into that (rather than directly into a radio), it will 
> keep ethernet carrier and not want to look for a new address every time you 
> switched radios. So it would just keep using the autoassigned one. (I think)
>
> I don't use Mikrotik much, I vaguely remember it uses a program that manages 
> radios without using IP addressing? Perhaps that is why your auto assigned 
> 169. address is of any value. Almost all the radios I've used (Trango, 
> Tranzeo, StarOS) you have to use a specific subnet (not auto assigned) to 
> talk to it. So I started out with a system that let me rapidly switch between 
> a few statics and dhcp.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> On Aug 20, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Justin Wilson wrote:
>
>>    The whole thing is windows takes so long if there is no DHCP server 
>> available.  For example, plug into a fresh Mikrotik with no configuration.  
>> How long does Windows take to time out if it is set to DHCP?  I have timed 
>> this at 1.5 minutes.  My mac only takes 17 seconds to say “hey there is no 
>> DHCP server I will auto assign a 169 IP”.  What I am looking for is a way to 
>> tell Windows don’t wait 1.5 minutes before you assign a 169 IP.  Only wait 
>> 20 seconds or whatever.
>>
>>     Sure you can assign a static IP and lessen this time, but assigning that 
>> IP takes time to do and undo.
>>
>>     The best solution I have seen so far is Barnes’s suggest for a program 
>> that lets you change networking profiles.  I was hoping someone knew of a 
>> registry key you could edit.  Something like DHCP_TIMEOUT=20s.  Instead of 
>> DHCP_TIMEOUT=120s.
>
>
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