As many of my Active Rain friends know, back in October, I switched over to Time Warner Cable Internet ... And everything was working just fine until a couple days ago:
http://www.lasnark.com/2008/12/10/time-warner-internet-outtages-in-the-los-angeles-area/
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/12/lose-your-time.htm
Each day for the last three days, I have had to phone Time Warner to "reset" the cable modem. (It did not react to rebooting on my side.) After they "reset" on their side it would work fine for several hours, but if I left to, oh, say, do something like sleep, my connection would be gone when I got up and came back to the 'puter.
Today I left my home to go to the office a little before 9:00 AM. I fully expected my internet connection to be whacked by the time I got back home.
But .... Glory!!!! Hallelujah!!!! It's still on!!!! I am connected!!!!!
And at a respectable speed....
If there is a Patron Saint of internet connections, thank you, dear Saint!!!
(If there isn't a patron saint of internet connections, maybe someone can nominate me after I'm gone.) :-)
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It's a nightmare isn't it? We're still with Time Warner cable after all that since getting anything else is a pain in the ass. I'm experiencing the same thing you are in my new apartment. If I let the laptop sit for a while the connection disappears. What is the dill. Srcly Nw.