I am renting a room in a house that has DSL including in the rent, so I ca not switch to cable. The DSL modem drops the connection about every ~10 minutes are so, no matter how much traffic is going ...

I use Verizon DSL. I use the modem they supplied to me, and my NIC is a Realtek RTL8029. Now, this is random, so I'll explain it my best... <P>Let's say I'm reading a very long thread on Ars, or I ...