I've been having this issue for a few days now. Roughly twice a day, for 10-15 mins, my internet just suddenly goes out without any warning. Then it comes back and is totally fine again. ISP says that there's nothing going on on their end (and most of the time when I have an internet outage they do say they're having an issue)
Is the router just fucked? Are there web goblins stealing my interwebs? Is there any way to tell?
It could really be anything. I had an issue sort of like this and the root cause was the router had a “helpful” option, called Dynamic Frequency Switching. In my layman understanding, this merged the 2.4 and 5.0 GHz channels into one SSID, and left the channel selection up to the router. So I was having issues with losing connection during vidya games when my router decided it was time to switch networks.
Hmm, yes, I recognize these squiggly lines on my screen
Now when I look at my dashboard the 2.4 and 5ghz things are under the "wireless" section and this problem is occurring over ethernet. maybe this means it wouldn't be what's going on? maybe?
Yep if it’s still happening over Ethernet, then this isn’t your problem.