Cav's Place

As I was saying at the end of October, I apparently ended up in a new network, though when dad went to talk to those from the one we were in he was told it was in fact a “partnership” between them and another network from the area, as their technician had left and the manager readily admitted knowing nothing about actually operating such a network, so they found this solution to have “someone who knows better” around. It seems that they’ll keep the location, at least for payments, but otherwise everything seems to have been moved over to the new network, and we were given the contact information of a new person in case there will be problems, dad saying he was told to talk only to him, probably also because the old network’s manager simply doesn’t know anything about the technical side.
For the first few days, the connection did briefly fail several times per day, and when I checked I saw that it either got a DHCP timeout or the DNS was oddly replaced with 192.168.0.1, but we had been told that there will be some problems at first, while they work on changing things, so I didn’t think much of it. Also, after being told that, didn’t think much of the fact that the upload speed I had when testing on servers from abroad was usually double the download speed, said download speed either way being about 20% or 30% faster than what I had in the old network. And, after those first few days passed and the connection became more stable, I didn’t even check anymore.
However, Thursday evening I noticed that I had a connection warning even though I was watching a live stream, so I was obviously still connected. When I checked, I once again saw that strange replacement of the DNS, but renewing the connection information fixed the issue… For a few minutes. Then it happened again, and when it happened the third time, trying to renew resulted in timeouts. Entering all information manually made it work just fine, on the other hand, and bar about ten seconds this evening I didn’t notice any other issues since.
Still, those ten seconds reminded me to check some things again, and I saw that my ISP is now being reported as a firm registered this year that assigns IPs, and also that speed tests now result in download speeds for servers from abroad that are similar to what I had in the old network and upload speeds that are far lower. More exactly, the upload speed on local servers is about half of what I used to have, and on those from abroad it’s about a third. And trying to let it get the connection information automatically first once again resulted in 192.168.0.1 as DNS, then entering the DNS manually resulted in the default gateway being replaced with that instead, which obviously meant that the connection didn’t work anymore, and further attempts to renew only led to timeouts.
So I’m feeling quite insecure with this network, not knowing much of anything about them and seeing these things happening. More interesting, however, is the fact that dad didn’t say anything about having problems himself, and he definitely wouldn’t know how to enter the information manually if he had to, so it seems to only happen on my computer, which in a way worries me even more and makes me wonder what I should do next, other than send an e-mail to the old network’s address, in case somebody still checks it, asking for some information, because I already did that but I don’t exactly have my hopes up. So I’m posting this now just in case there will be serious problems later…