I've been having a rather peculiar issue for the past couple of weeks. Last Tuesday, 7/29/08, I discovered around 8:30pm that my DSL internet was out. A couple of hours later, just as I was in the middle of setting up a tech call as phone troubleshooting hadn't worked, it came back on--around 10:30 or so. It then behaved itself perfectly well until today, exactly a week later, it went out again at a little after 8pm. This time, I decided to wait, and at 9:15pm it came back briefly, went out again at 9:30, and then returned at 10:11pm. It's now an hour since then, and it seems perfectly fine. I, however, am completely boggled.
There was really only one difference between the two episodes: during the first one, the internet light on the modem was completely off and the DSL light was blinking. During the second one, the DSL light remained steady green, and the internet light was alternately red (for about 2 min at a time) or off (for about 5 min at a time). Otherwise, they were identical.
Anyone have any ideas on what might be causing this? I really don't think it's anything internal; I literally did nothing but wait--no rebooting, no power cycling; the modem just lost connectivity and then regained it. But what could Verizon possibly be doing every Tuesday evening that might cause this issue?
