RE: Our "Structured" Internet Outages and Other Mysteries...

I also get dropouts here in Britain at a set time of day for a while. Not every day, but often enough that it's obvious. Previously I had about 30 visits from the network engineers because there were so many problems with their exchange and the line between the exchange and my house - eventually I got them to fix all of them and the speed went up by over 10x.

Whoever owns the lines probably has control of the situation and if they suck, they suck.