I do want to throttle my ISP at times.

I went to cable last year in Feb. Everything worked fine until the end of the month, then I would go for the first week of on and off service.

I'd unplug the modem, reload the program and reboot the machine. It would work for a while then peter out.

I replaced the modem, put in new cables* and a splitter and all is well now. I even wake up in the middle of the night just to watch the modem wink at me.

*I had taken the 'extra' cable that came with the original modem and used it to replace a cable on my mom's hookup next door-Why? because I was too lazy to move furniture and use it. I was putting in a new splitter and I could not get the comp to work AFTER I matched the new splitter with the old cable. So I got her a cable and took the 'old' one back.

Get top notch splitters and cabling. The shiat you buy at Radio Shack and Target is O.K. for putting a DVD player to the TV set, but useless for comp hookups.

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Oh, and the cable that ran from the phone pole to the house was 20+ years old....This was at the time when there was ON TV! One cable channel that you saw when youflipped a switch on a box that rested on the top of the set. Had that line replaced too!


Put it this way......We had it installed when Apocalypse Now had just hit cable!