Comment 9 for bug 995130

That is possible. It's difficult to notice patterns, because it typically takes me a minute or two to notice that the connection has dropped, since I might be downloading something in the background but only notice the problem when I switch to my browser and try to load a new page.

I'm not doing any p2p traffic, but I'm using a script based on youtube-dl to pre-download my subscribed videos to my hard disk so I don't have to wait for them to buffer. I have noticed a few times that running the script was followed shortly by a loss of connectivity, and the same for some other large in-browser downloads. Also I've just installed 12.04 from scratch a few days ago, so I'm still installing packages, and sometimes the apt-get download is interrupted by a connectivity loss event.

But still, there are other times when I'm not aware of any specific high traffic that I'm generating, but maybe the website that I'm loading at the time happens to have a bunch of large images or something and is generating a traffic burst.