Modem loses internet connection every 6 hours....like clockwork.

Starting a week ago, the router would lose internet connection what seemed randomly several times a day. I would reset the modem, and the internet connection would return.  If  wait long enough, the router usually recovers itself, so I don't really need to do the reset, it just recovers quicker if I do the reset myself.

 

It happened to me this morning so I decided to log in to look at the event logs. And I found that for the last week, every 6 hours, there is a log entry that looks like this:

 

[Dhcpc][1774]: erouter0 got new IP 69.251.83.49
2020/6/26 08:54:43 Notice

 

And I realized that those match the times that I have noticed internet loses connectivity. Before a week ago, this never occurred. I suppose that this is the event that occurs after the router 'fixes' itself.

 

My lease is set to renew weekly. and I made no changes to the router setup.  Any ideas?

 

Here is today's and yesterday's log entries...

[Dhcpc][1774]: erouter0 got new IP 69.251.83.49
2020/6/26 08:54:43 Notice

[Dhcpc][1757]: erouter0 got new IP 69.251.83.49
2020/6/26 02:54:24 Notice

[Dhcpc][1774]: erouter0 got new IP 69.251.83.49
2020/6/25 20:42:46 Notice

 

[Dhcpc][1774]: erouter0 got new IP 69.251.83.49
2020/6/26 08:54:43 Notice

[Dhcpc][1757]: erouter0 got new IP 69.251.83.49
2020/6/26 02:54:24 Notice

[Dhcpc][1774]: erouter0 got new IP 69.251.83.49
2020/6/25 20:42:46 Notice

[Dhcpc][1793]: erouter0 got new IP 69.251.83.49
2020/6/25 02:05:14 Notice