Here in the NE they would change something and knock down 4 states for a day or 2. While they got better I moved to cable with the 99 buck a month deal for tv,internet, phone and that's the primary reason I changed.
In your case your story sounds like a real issue that you can only solve by changing services.
Bob
I have had Verizon DSL for about 2 years, switch from Cable for the lower price. Unfortunately throughout the whole 2 years I have experienced ridiculous disconnections for no reason! I have called them for several times, the tech support was just of no help!( well, they always told u to restart ur modem, reboot ur computer, and think that helped...)
Sometimes it works great, and sometimes it drops from time to time even at daytime! i would say 2 out of 10 days i got these pissed off drops. And when it rains and with thunders, it will 100% drop! Almost every time there's a thunder, it drops instantly! I called them regarding this issue, they apparently didnt know anything about it! And today at this moment at night, it dropped every 20 mins again( for a few hours)!
I am now determined to switch to cable, or other DSL!

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