Ive had verizon internet for around 8 years now with very little issue sbut lately while on my laptop using the wireless connectiong I have been getting lag spikes every so often and disconnecting about once per hour yet the wireless icon never shows that it is disconnected. I used to have the occassional lost connection or disconnect maybe once a week, if at all but within the past two weeks its been happening every day usually on the hour. Could it possibly be something to do with the proxy or ping? I dont think it's the hardware as thats only two years old and all the wires are connected as they should be, nothing has been changed within those two years. However, we do have 3 PCs in the house that use the wireless but it still happens if Im the only one on.