I actually know how their network runs. It's a secure feature that had to be added in, because of ip spoofing spammers. It's annoying I know. The only way inexpensively I know to get around the rapid ip refresh is to setup an actual router to manage DHCP. I run a belkin wireless and it's great. Runs really good with every distro I've tried. I actively use Mandrake, but I've also used everything from Red Hat 9 to Slackware, and Debian on it. I even tried out some more obscure distros like Peanut, and a few others all of them picked up the connection with out a hitch.
You pick up a decent no nonsense router anymore for $40 or less. Either that or if you have some old hardware kicking around that you don't mind leaving running all the time. Put on a "router" distro on it and run it as your router, but you might pay more in hydro throughout the year than you're saving by not buying the router.
It's an annoying situation I know, but that's the joys of dynamic ip, and a world full of idiots who want to sell us crap we don't want or need. Go figure
Anyways we all feel your pain. One sneaky way of getting it to work without have to make a new program might be just through dhclient into cron and schedule it to run every so many hours. I know VOL refreshes ip at least after 30 mins of non activity and within 8 hours regardless.
God Bless
