Working on and off (solution)

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I had another topic open but missed the deadline for arguing a comment by 8 hours! Original topic:

Working on and off

Expected Behaviour: Consistent internet and DHCP. Actual Behaviour: This is a bit tricky as I'm not certain what is going on. In short, the pihole works for a few hours then stops providing internet. Sometimes, after anything from a few minutes to a few hours, it will start working again, as if nothing had gone wrong. When it is not working a device generally cannot get an IP address (and therefore no internet). If you have a connection already it comes up with internet pages not available. If…

I wanted to post my answer for others to see:
The power plug worked for a little bit but then I started having the same issues again. I did a complete wipe and installed the light version of raspbian. This is now been running flawlessly for over a month. Still using my 1.9 amp plug. It seems the pi zero with all the other raspbian bits was just not powerful enough.