This article outlines what happens when PURU disables your connection and how it is possible for you to get a bandwidth ticket, even if PURU shut you off.

After PURU is installed, it monitors the bandwidth that is entering and exiting your computer. If either of these monitored numbers gets close to the bandwidth limit or the specified percentage of the limit (which you can change in PURU's settings), PURU uses the 'ipconfig /release' command to make you "lose" your IP address, thus making you lose internet connectivity.

That being said, it is only possible for your connection to be disconnected for a maximum of of 2 hours. The reason that your connection will only be disabled for this time is that Windows automatically tries to renew your IP address when the lease time for your IP address is up.

Our DHCP servers are set with a lease time of 2 hours, so potentially you have a maximum of 2 hours that you will not have connectivity before Windows enables your connection automatically. Of course, this 2 hours is assuming that PURU disabled you right when your IP address was last renewed. More likely then not, this will not be the case, as PURU will disable your connection sometime in the middle of the 2 hour window.

This is why it may appear that PURU is not working because it may have disabled you right before your lease time has expired. The reason that the release command was used was to maximize compatibility across systems.

A few steps to take if you are finding that you are getting close to your bandwidth limit:

• Use PURU to monitor your bandwidth
• Turn off any file sharing applications you may have
• Do not send or receive any files from any messaging program
• Do not download any files from the internet
• If you are not able to monitor or curb your bandwidth usage, simply turn off your computer or unplug it from the network