Well, that's (hopefully) sorted

Lately, I've been having problems with my cablemodem at home losing connection once or twice a night. It'd generally reconnect quickly enough that I didn't drop any sessions or anything, but it was annoying. This week, it started to happen more and more often, to the point I'd go half an hour without being able to stay connected long enough to do anything. After making sure the network itself was okay, I decided that my four year old modem was probably just dying. I shot off an email to the ISP yesterday to see what they thought.

Turns out that they upgraded the system recently, and it's simply too fast for my old cablemodem to keep up. So it'll trip and fall every so often. Armed with a list of currently supported modems, I will go shopping for a new one this afternoon (last night was so bad I really can't stand to go another day without fixing the problem).