13 steps

Two connections are better than one, and seeing as my 5mb cable connection doesn’t allow me to run servers (and blocks several ports like the ones for mail to really prohibit it) I now have a second connection, 6mb ADSL. Which for some reason feels a heck of a lot faster than my cable, the only problem is that it croaks roughly every 4 hours. Already spent 2 hours on the phone with support today, still nothing. Weird doodoo, because the modem is still accessible by webconfig or telnet by both me and them, it just doesn’t pass any traffic along. So seeing as the only remedy is to switch the modem off and back on again I’m guessing the modem they sent me is kaputt. And so the wait begins.