DSL and looking like an idiot

Over the last few days my DSL has failed several times. It appears to be a noise problem or a loop problem between my house and the CO. I opened a call with Speakeasy to try and troubleshoot. The biggest problem is I am almost never home when it happens and the DSLAM logs roll over every 3 hours. Usually the fix is power cycling the modem. Today it happened again about 9 AM. I went home for lunch (sort of) to try and look at it. I called Speakeasy and then said line looks good. No traffic was getting through though. I power cycled the modem and still nothing. Hmm... Just in case I power cycled my switch. Sure enough that was it. Huh? After years now all of sudden the switch is wigging out. Of course I look like an idiot on phone with Speakeasy though. I will be happy if the DSL just works from now on out.