Well, I moved back to my Gramda's yesterday and conveniently enough, the Internet went out. Well, it didn't totally go out, but my cable modem is throwing lots of errors in the log and speed is at a crawl. Googling these errors indiciates either a problem on the line or a failed modem.

I am waiting for Broadstripe to come inspect the line outside that runs directly from the pole to my modem (no splitters), though I am betting the problem lies with the 5 year old modem itself, for which I will inevitably end up buying a replacement.

An advantage of owning your own modem is that you don't have to pay an additional monthly modem rental fee. A disadvantage is that you can't get a new one from the cable company for free if it just randomly breaks, or to troubleshoot problems.

I'm posting this from my phone, as the v4 layout is somehow automagically allowing me to login, whereas v2/3 did not. Hooray.