Tomorrow I have a new 8-man team for a D&D game. If my modem holds. About two weeks ago the surge protector gave its life with squawking fizzling sparks and smoke, waking me up in the morning. I keep thinking my modem is fried. Well, half fried. Two of the 8 downstreams are dead and a third one is fluxing back and forth something fierce. I called timewarner and they said "your modem is fine, it's noise on the line, possibly a short in the house somewhere (which really shouldn't be possible, as we've had three electricians in the house in the past two weeks and a new main breaker installed, though the wiring elsewhere is still 1950s).

Last time they came out here it turns out the house was producing voltage and the tech got shocked touching the aluminum siding (almost had internet cut then and there) until we installed a new groundwire (which almost got stolen, twice). Internet has slowed to beyond a crawl for me, so I'm hoping the modem holds.