IP Address Lease?

[Tusk- Mann of Peace]

This probably isn't the right place to ask this, but for the past few days, in games such as League of Legends and Team Fortress 2, I have had issues with internet connection, where I would lag for half a second. This was all fine, but about an hour ago, I was playing League of Legends, and I had disconnected from the game, but reconnected after a minute, and my ping went from a constant 33-35 ms to jumping between 95 and 217. This lasted a few minutes. Actually, it had lasted for the rest of the game. But then, when I clicked "Okay" on the defeat screen and gone back to the desktop client, I noticed that not only was my WiFi no longer at the usual 5-bar service, it was not even my usual WiFi. But I got my usual WiFi network back after a few seconds. After a little panic attack, I had decided to go through some details on certain software, and read on the Network Connection Details that something about a "Lease Obtained" happened around the same time my connection went wonky. Upon research, I think that this "lease" was my computer renewing my IP Address. And the details said that the "Lease Expires" at 7:09 PM, an hour after it was renewed. When it was almost 7:09, I had gone back to the details, and the expiration had extended an hour. So I don't know if this new "IP Lease" is temporary or not.

I know as much about computers as I know about algebra (none). So I decided to come to you guys. So my questions are:
Would my internet connection not be that great at the time before an IP Address Lease renewal?
Is this lease temporary, or is the expiration going to keep extending?
Is this something that I should be taking to a group like Geek Squad, who have a lot of knowledge on computers?

Thanks for reading, and hopefully this is the place to ask.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Lease is from your Modem/Router. Most lease of local IP# are only good for roughly 7-day intervals; this is normal. They Modem/Router renews the local IP on-the-fly. There should not be a "disconnect" during this time though.

Now sometimes the ISP might release/renew your ISP IP#; and that can sometimes cause the modem to go through a reboot cycle.

[Tusk- Mann of Peace]

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Lease is from your Modem/Router. Most lease of local IP# are only good for roughly 7-day intervals; this is normal. They Modem/Router renews the local IP on-the-fly. There should not be a "disconnect" during this time though.

Now sometimes the ISP might release/renew your ISP IP#; and that can sometimes cause the modem to go through a reboot cycle.

If my modem went through a reboot cycle, would it affect my TV and Phone service as well, in the way that it affects my internet?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

If that modem connects/controls your various TVs/Phones; then yes. But again that is just a short, momentary hiccup. Often times an ISP modem might have various reasons for having to reboot and usually occurs without the owner every knowing; all depends how you have it all setup too. Usually for say Comcast, your Internet + Phone would go through the main internet based modem; but TVs however usally have their signal come in off the main line, not tied directly to, or coming off of the internet modem. So the TV signals should not be interupted during a modem reboot process; usually some other form of service interuption would need to occur for your area for the TVs to be affected.

[Long Ago [Linux]]

You need to check the DHCP settings for whatever you use for a router. DHCP automatically assigns IP addresses on your LAN. Lease time is when those IP's expire and your computer needs to renew its lease again with your router. It sounds like DHCP in your router is set for a short period of time (1 hour?).

The DHCP lease time in my DSL gateway (wireless/router/modem) is set for 7 days. But my main PC is set for a static IP, in my LAN network, but outside of DHCP range. So my main PC never gets interrupted for DHCP renewal.

It is also possible that something is interfering with your wireless. When I was checking out a temporary DSL issue I apparently moved my DSL gateway. After the DSL issue was resolved I was still lagging. I noticed that my WiFi connection speed was only 1 Mbps. I moved my DSL gateway back a couple of inches to where it was and my WiFi was 54 Mbps (plenty fast enough for my 5.1 Mbps DSL). So sometimes if your router or computer/laptop is moved just a little, it can make a significant difference in signal strength.