No internet connection sometimes at night?

sometimes, so far we have noticed only at night, my boyfriend and i have a problem connecting to the internet on our macbooks. i wonder if it has to do with the connection or our computers?? as far as we can recall this kind of problem really hasn't happened in the day time. would it have anything to do with 2 macs trying to find a connection?? we connect wirelessly via a cable connection. no settings were changed between the day and night. no settings were change at all for that matter, so i don't want to have to explain what my settings are and what not. bottom line, if nothing has been changed why would it be different at night?? that makes me think it is the connection. tonight when we restarted the modem and router it worked. anyone else have this problem in NJ with verizon (i think...maybe OPTonline)? seems to be since there were two macbooks in the house....he just got his last week. previously he had a pc laptop.
anyway....just curious if anyone has any theories as to why this might happen...some suggestions if it continues to happen so we don't have to restart the modem everytime. any input would be appreciated.
thanks so much.
--Carlee

Carlee, I have noticed that many Internet Service Providers will sometomes have problems in the early evening because of the amount of traffic on there servers. This can sometimes be caused because they just need larger servers or less customers.
Normally Dial-up is by far the worst, followed by
DSL and Cable is the best of the 3 mentioned.
It may be neccessary to reset your system when this occurs.
Shut of your machines, pull the power adapter from both your ISP's Modem and your Router. Wait 5 minutes and then in order.
Plug in your ISP's Modem and wait 1 minute.
Plug in your Router and wait 1 minute.
Now you can restart your computers.
We all have this problem from time to time, I have it when I get Automatic Updates and it requires a restart and it will sometime cause this issue.
Don

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