That is a ‘new feature’ of PokerStars. And it sucks royally. The Internet and more important server farms and ISP’s try to be 5-9′s. In some areas they are. Overall, online poker ain’t 5-9′s.
If you haven’t heard the term before, 5-9′s is the old Bell System standard for up time. It is: 99.999% reliable. (Just over 5-minute each year.) If you play poker