Japanese Sentence a Day Challenge

試合を見る間によくインタネットが切れるものだ!

How could the internet go out while I’m trying to watch the game!

Meant this as one of my frequent “pick a grammar point out of the DJGs and use it with a little explanation” for ものだ but wound up with a question about it myself so I’ll skip the explanation and head over to the grammar thread.