Update: All work is complete.
Tonight, February 17th, at 11:59pm, we will be replacing a redundant network switch feeding our database and hosting servers. We do not anticipate any interruption to service, but there may be delays as connections are transitioned over.
— Joe and the Sonic SOC
Yup, connection dropped here in Alameda, CA at exactly midnight. All connections broke, VPN went down. Things began to recover about 2.5 minutes later.
Why would a switch for DB and webservers impact ADSL connectivity of an end user?