What is wrong with the Net today?!?

[capnq]

Did somebody launch a new worm for April Fools' Day? All day I have not been able to load more than two or three pages in a row without my dialup connection dropping.

(Anybody who suggests getting broadband will be pointedly ignored, at best. I suspect the phone company of deliberately letting the land lines deteriorate to force people onto broadband and wireless.)

[capnq]

OK, so the problem apparently is not the Net, but an intermittent fault in my phone line. The phone company can't find a problem remotely, and claim they'll send a tech out Friday. They've lied to me before.