In fact, that's a very good point...! It wasn't even sleeping now I come to think of it which make it all the more bizarre.
I turned off sleep a week or so back as running Folding@Home. All it does now is turn the monitor off, and log me out.
Checked the IP lease time is working OK - I have a...
Happened again today when waking from sleep. It does seem very strange. Hard to put any logic to it.
Thanks for the link @SpyderTracks - if that relates to the issue I have then there may be some light at the end of the tunnel. :)
Thanks for the suggestion. I have tried this and will see.
The fact it still did it with the second router suggests it may not be the router that's at fault - though admittedly that second router isn't Linksys and I haven't altered the settings on it at all from standard ISP ones.
Thank you for your reply UBUYSA. Apologies for not spotting it before.
I still seem to be having troubles - but it's hard to isolate it to know whether it's a router issue or a W10 issue.
I've just taken a look at the router settings as you suggest and have changed it to 525600mins i.e. 365...
W7 PC, W10 Laptop, iPhones, Samsung TVs, usual kind stuff.
Nothing else seems to have much issue. The W10 laptop sometimes starts with that globe for 10s after waking from sleep, but it soon changes to a proper wifi symbol.
Not as far as I'm aware.
No static IP addresses set at all.
It is indeed, and it could be even better still......it's supposed to be 300mbps symmetrical FTTP. ISP tells me that you can't measure such speeds properly using a conventional speed test.