[rockfan4]

Even though I work in IT, I don't have a fiber or even cable modem internet connection at home. I'm on 10mb DSL, had it for about 5 years now, had it before when I first moved to this house, then had cable until the promo ended, now back to DSL. It's fast enough to do my job, I can remote into stuff from home without issues, and the only thing I can't do is run a camera during a meeting.

But for the last week or so my connection has been dropping quite often, sometimes every five minutes, sometimes only a couple times a day. I figured the DSL modem was failing and ordered another one. I hooked the new one up tonight and it's doing the same thing. So I'm fairly certain it's not the modem.

So I scheduled a service call. They're going to charge me "up to $99" if the problem is found past their box on the outside of the house. I'm pretty certain it won't be - line from their box to a box in the basement, the pairs are scotchlocked to a line that goes behind the TV in the living room, and then their line to the modem.

We shall see. I hope the guy shows up in the morning Monday, and not the last call of the day.