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by iiilllililiiiiI 3258 days ago
If you have a linux device on the network you could have that be the dhcp server and control lease times there, dhcp and dns on a linux machine(even an old laptop) are way better than all but the top tier netgear routers. If your windows machine is always on you could even run it in a vm.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/248355/can-i-run-a-dhcp-serv...

Hope that helps. You'll still be behind the NAT of the netgear router but you'll have better control over QoS.

Here's how you can do it on a debian box

https://wiki.debian.org/DHCP_Server