"DESCRIPTION 1"="Normally, when you physically disconnect a network cable from your Network Interface Card (NIC) and plug-in it in later on again, Windows will start a DHCP Request (DHCP assigns IP Numbers in a network)."
"DESCRIPTION 2"="This is good for corporate networks since this way people can travel with their Notebooks in different segments of the network without restarting their computer."
"DESCRIPTION 3"="However, when you are using a Broadband Internet Connection and an outage occurs, you can no longer access the Internet even when the connection is up again. This is because Windows will try to sent a DHCP request to the internet, does not get any response and uses the IP Address 0.0.0.0 which can't be used."
"DESCRIPTION 4"="Equals: You are disconnected from the Internet until you reboot your machine."
"DESCRIPTION 5"="To solve this, you can disable the DHCP Media Sense with this plug-in so Window will use the configured IP Address regardless if the connection is up or not."
"DESCRIPTION 6"="WARNING: Do not activate this setting when you want to connect to a corporate network with a DHCP server. You can toggle this setting off or on as many times as you want."
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