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**Cellus** · 03-24-2008, 09:49 AM

Unfortunately the reliability of Home/SOHO routers does not even compare to bigger enterprise solutions by a long shot, so finding a router which fails to automatically update DynDNS does not surprise me in the least (sadly). However to be honest when I first started using DynDNS I never actually had to deal with a Home/SOHO router which automatically updated itself, so I always ended up installing the client software on the PC anyways.

So as to nip any problems in the bud, John's recommendation to run the client anyways is spot on. The client is incredibly small, unobtrusive, and takes almost no resources whatsoever to run (it's basically just a tiny program which pokes the service regularly on a timer), so running it should be no problem even on a low-end PC. The system is almost idiotproof, so unless your PC is actually disconnected from the Internet for a full month, you shouldn't have any problems keeping the DynDNS account active.

03-24-2008, 09:49 AM	#4 (permalink)
Cellus Moderator Networking Team Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 2,633 OS: Windows Vista Business SP1, Windows XP Professional SP3 My System	Re: realVNC - a n00b question Unfortunately the reliability of Home/SOHO routers does not even compare to bigger enterprise solutions by a long shot, so finding a router which fails to automatically update DynDNS does not surprise me in the least (sadly). However to be honest when I first started using DynDNS I never actually had to deal with a Home/SOHO router which automatically updated itself, so I always ended up installing the client software on the PC anyways. So as to nip any problems in the bud, John's recommendation to run the client anyways is spot on. The client is incredibly small, unobtrusive, and takes almost no resources whatsoever to run (it's basically just a tiny program which pokes the service regularly on a timer), so running it should be no problem even on a low-end PC. The system is almost idiotproof, so unless your PC is actually disconnected from the Internet for a full month, you shouldn't have any problems keeping the DynDNS account active. __________________ TSF Networking Team HijackThis 5 Step Process Donate!