For quite a while I suspected that my ISP was pushing flaky updates to my cable modem as my internet would randomly drop until I rebooted it. My solution was to

For quite a while I suspected that my ISP was pushing flaky updates to my cable modem as my internet would randomly drop until I rebooted it. My solution was to wire it into an esp8266 relay and program my home automation to power cycle it if the internet went down for more than a few minutes. Thankfully, they seem to have gotten their act together; the automation hasn’t triggered since September.