My DSL wants me to quit gaming!

Not sure what's up with CenturyTel around here, but for the past few days, every evening around 8-9pm my DSL takes a dump. This usually happens just about the time I'm sitting down to play some Warcraft, Call of Duty 4 or Team Fortress 2.

Here's the speedtest.net scores from yesterday:

12:26pm 2SEP2008 (Fine)



2:18pm 2SEP2008 (Fine)


5:44pm 2SEP2008 (Fine)


7:31pm 2SEP2008 (Fine)


7:51pm 2SEP2008 (Slipping...)


8:31pm 2SEP2008 (Slipping....)


9:39pm 2SEP2008 (Oh look, twenty minutes to Raid time, yay!)


10:15pm 2SEP2008 (Mid-raid after a few disconnects.)


Of course it's fine when I call during the day, so last night I finally got a hold of someone and jumped through all the hoops (dismantling my network, disconnecting my router, plugging directly into their modem, modem directly into its own phone jack, all other phones unplugged.)

Guess what? Still sucky DSL speed and the problem isn't on my end. I finally have an open ticket, but no ETA on a fix.

Wish me luck!