The disconnects would have been caused by an alarm, but the DSL levels now will be good enough to withstand a device without a filter on it.
If you had mentioned in your initial post that your internet was only doing ~500kbps the first thing anybody on here would have done would have been to ask whether you were on a ULL connection, as you were clearly suffering from midpoint injection issues also.
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