I have used many versions of 2.8 and 2.9 other the last year, and all have shown the same issue. I am still puzzled as to why when a wireless client associates to my MT routers for the first time (or for the first time since having associated with some other router), the clients take way long to aqcuire their ip information via dhcp. It takes long enough that in WinXP, the icon comes up that only a "limited connection" is available. Then about 2 to 3 seconds after that, it immediately gets the ip info and cruises along just fine. I have had this problem with 6 different MT routers, and I hope it is something in my config that I can change to remedy this. I assume not everyone has this same problem because I can not easily find other posts about this.
It is a fairly trivial problem, but it makes my access points seem kind of substandard to first time users... Any advice is greatly appreciated.