Oh Lantec you left out one very important possibility. They don't find any problems!   

Have you notice any strange vehicles on you street? Seen any men dressed in BLACK!?   

My money's on a line/equipment issue on their side. Or....have you seen any unusual lights hovering overhead? Could be a ufo!  I hope they get you fixed up,good luck.

I had a very similar issue a few years ago. It turned out to be an exposed line outside my house. Have you noticed that the outages occur during rain or strong wind?

You have now been upgraded to a faster network. Thus we are happy to inform you of a small increase in your monthly bill. We are sorry for the problems in your area. But we had little choice since you are always using up your bandwidth.
Thank you!
I have heard of some people with cable connections getting such a notice. Due to their use of to much bandwidth and such. So they say... But actually it is just a way to make you pay more.
Oh when the Men in Black do show up... that is it for you! They usually take everything they want and place you in a container. A small container at that too!
Good luck!

SGT

I was just helping a customer track down an annoying intermittent problem. AT&T's top level support said they thought it was a mole digging in the ground bumping the line every time it went past. They'd have to catch it while it was screwing up to be sure.

Now thats and explanation!

Lol, a similar thing happened with the telephone line back home. It was the nibble toe for some weasels...

Lantec, could be lots of things but I think your first two guesses are the most likely at this point (bad modem or cable/RF issue) Having to reset your modem twice in a week should not be happening. Ideally you should only have to do that once in a blue moon.

That said, depending on your providers network and how it's configured there could be other factors at play (although this would probably then be affecting other subs too) Last week we had a problem where an improperly configured firewall was causing one way voice calls!

Do you have cable TV with your internet provider also?
If so, have they been running the Emergency Broadcast Test lately?
If the answer is yes, your cable company is broadcasting the test on the channel that your Road Runner is on (I believe channel 66 in my area). The test will screw with your modem and kill your internet.

I have CATV(HD), Brighthouse telephone and Road Runner high speed internet all packaged together. We were one of the first 100 customers in the County to take their phone service. We make a lot of long distance calls and save $80/month over Bellsouth with the telephone.

The problem was...........

I found out today that about 6 weeks ago my next door neighbor got the same service I have. He's been having issues too.

His installer was a private contractor and not a Brighthouse Employee....it seems there is more than one kind of cable and the fella used a 6 instead of a 9 (haven't got a clue what that means) to connect to the drops which are 9s...... according to the Brighthouse guy that's a big no-no.....so he was here for about 3.5 hours and ended up putting in complete new drops to both homes. Everything's working great and I even got a bit of a bump in upload speed from 3-4mbs to around 5 mbs

So mostly good guesses.....

Wow, that’s fast. I just upgraded to Road Runner Turbo and in my area they only offer 1mbs up and 8mbs down. I'm jealous.

Lantec:


Most likely the number 9 cable has more shielding and the material
of the wire is better too. Also, if their are any splitters being
used. Make sure they are in good working order.

My bad.........should have said kbs on the download side

no edit button......



upload side

I have Time Warner Cable with Digital Basic, 2 DVRs, and Roadrunner. I also have regular phone service (Embarq with 2 lines - formerly Sprint) and Verizon Wireless.

When RR was first installed, the Tech (idiot) placed an internal splitter to go to TV and RR, which brought the signal below the RR modem's threshold. The second tech (smart) who had to come and fix idiot's screwup(s) had a few things to say about those internal splitters. He replaced the main splitter outside to add another connection, and with some work, found the best position for the RR cable, which goes into the basement, along with a separate line for CATV. Three TVs: basement recreation room, back bedroom, and family room. At this point the cable modem was a Toshiba PCX1100U 10 mbps, which worked fine for several years.

Since then most repair calls have been due to totally insane gray squirrels with an appetite for cable insulation. The last RR repair call was that far too many packets were being dropped. Most of this was between the pole and the modem, and the modem, with some down the line from the pole. I even got the modem upgraded to a 100 mbps.

When the contractor came and installed the DVRs, he did everything right, but, I was having problems. It turned out that the main external splitter was on the flakey side (durn intermittent problems) and got replaced. Everything has been fine since then.

Most tech calls I make (rare) for RR, get bumped immediately to tier 1 (actual systems tech - UNIX admin), since I use multiple OSes and those problems show up in all of my OSes. The ones who take the initial call know that it is beyond their ability and hand me over to tier 1. Sometimes it is limited to the blade I am on, sometimes not, sometimes I simply have to reset my router and cable modem.

For me, Tech or repair calls are very rare.

I'm on Road Runner with BrightHouse (Tampabay area) also and have been having the same issues as you Lantc except for the phone. Internet down all day last Tuesday and then it popped back on for no reason. This was after 2 unsuccessful tech contacts with BrightHouse. On Friday it went down again. After going through 4 techs the last one finally decided my modem was bad and set up an appointment on Monday to switch out the modem. The connection popped back on again Saturday morning. My existing modem was an Arris, but they brought a brand new Scientific Atlantic 2203c (Cisco). Everything seems to be fine with the modem, but I'm only getting 11-12Mbps out of a 20Mbps service. Now I'm waiting for Linksys support on this issue. Man it never ends. (