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Old Mar 14, 2021 | 1:16 pm
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rkoechel
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Originally Posted by Centurion
If you have a basic concept of IP addresses you will understand the need to release your devices IP addresses in 24hours and sometimes even less. If the hotel resort kept all the IPs of the connected devices logged in over 24 hrs they would soon find no room to assign an IP address to your device. You could find a way around this but each location would be different.
I highly doubt there are anywhere close to 16 million devices on a Hyatt hotel guest network…so no they don’t need to release and release-assign devices this frequently.
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