is my internet connection being hacked?

[Ben]

You're not being hacked- it's nearly impossible to hack a wired Internet connection. What happens is that you and everyone else in your neighborhood have small wires coming out of your homes. Those wires are all connected to a single big wire that goes out to the world. It helps if you actually think of this like an information highway. During the day, lots of your neighbors are probably also on the Internet, sending data down the ramps to the highway and you get a traffic jam. At night, the traffic eases up and you can go full speed ahead.