Achoo22, my brother has that ISP, what you said is wrong because the only way that happens is by drinking the koolaid, you downloaded the windstream set up exe which changed all your default settings, you are also using the wind stream provided modem , which in their contract agreement gives them right to backdoor access as well as share the wifi if you bothered to read it. you can't activate the modem connection until you click "accept". you drank the koolaid, just admit it. none of thosee actions happened on my brothers computer until that "accept" was clicked for the EULA and that required d/l the windstream client help .exe
i went and bought him a new modem so he never has to go thru that mess again every time the modem drops connection from their back door intrusion my bothers log keeps reporting. connection will drop 1-3 times to 50 times a day depending on what you are doing with your net, seems to be more when you are viewing multimedia content like netflix or hulu my brother says, guess that interferes with their DISH Digital TV Package.