all I can suggest is to check for any electrical equipment that comes on at night that is not normally on during the day (like flourcent light or light dimmer switch, etc.); and if the causes are outside of your house then there is not much you can do (except maybe try cable company). I might add I know just how it is..I am an ex-DSL user. I live in Rowland Heights; my DSL use to cut off completely from about 8pm to 8am. My ISP says they have no problem on their end..so my thought was maybe it's the street light which I cannot control.
Of coarse I have cable story to tell too, hehe.
Hey there,
I've called this problem in multiple times to my ISP (AT&T), though they never can really figure out what's going on with my internet connection, so I was hoping maybe somebody here in the forums could perhaps help me out.
I live in the suburbs near Los Angeles, CA, and I seem to have internet connectivity issues; however the strange part about my internet connection problems is that it seems to only happen at night time. My internet connection rarely slows or stops during the day, but at night time I can't even seem to load webpages like digg.com or facebook.com or any major websites that should be working fine. I have these "dropouts" that occur every few minutes... the connection will be fine for a minute or two, and then my connection will drop for 2-5 minutes and all the webpages in my browser will just hang.
Has anyone ever heard of any fixable internet connection problems only occurring at night? Hopefully someone has because this problem is just driving me crazy.
(also, I forgot to mention that I know this problem isn't a router problem because it still occurs even if I'm directly plugged into my modem via ethernet cable.
and also, the computer I'm using is a Mac, in case that matters at all.)

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