text: i have sbcglobal & my connection has been diconnecting about every 1/2 hour.is there a prob in my area?reno,nv   hi mam,   u r very lucky that i saw ur question... lucky b'coz i was working in sbc's customer care center in india. the problem could be that u dsl modem might be exp. some static charge or u can also powercycle the modem