[peteh]

I had the same problem some weeks back, irrespective of wether I ran it through a router or modem regardless of what settings used, the connection would continually drop at or close to the same time hourly

Eventually it did get resolved but it was hugely frustrating to say the least so I know exactly what you are going through

More to the point, the problems actually returned this weekend

If you established everything on your end is ok might be worth just contacting them first thing and reporting the fault.. chances are they are doing maintanance or have a problem somewhere

Seems to be doing it a fair bit this year, we've had the connection for 10 years or so(ex-blueyond), so we've had our share of minor problems down the road, but its alot more noticable this year

Probably is their end, or at least something in the middle