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I have verizon fios and for a few weeks now, the internet keeps shutting off for no more than 5 mintues. It does this almost every few hours. It comes back on but it gets annoying after a while.

Yeah, I'd call them up.  I've had fios for almost a year now, and I have yet to have one single outage or slowdown.

Could be your router shutting down also.  Call them and see if there is a firmware upgrade(if you got router from verizon).  If you did not get the router from verizon, that may be your problem right there.  A lot of routers cannot handle the fios.  They will work, but will crash and/or slow you down.