So no, my DSL doesn't always work. Running loopping to ping every 10 seconds, I've had seven DSL outages in the past four days.
Outage for 360 seconds started Sun Nov 18 12:03:34 2001
Outage for 50 seconds started Sun Nov 18 13:24:00 2001
Outage for 90 seconds started Sun Nov 18 18:56:25 2001
Outage for 100 seconds started Sun Nov 18 21:32:55 2001
Outage for 40 seconds started Mon Nov 19 08:19:43 2001
Outage for 50 seconds started Tue Nov 20 21:10:13 2001
Outage for 900 seconds started Wed Nov 21 01:59:12 2001
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  2001-11-21 08:00 Z