Telco cable modem snowball

As I sat this morning disconnecting my connection that signed on with a 16.8k upload then immediately reconnecting (probably somewhere around 40 or 50 times), thoughts lingered in my mind. Several hours have been wasted just trying to connect this weekend, you cannot download some updates at such a slow speed, what alternatives are available, etc. It seems to wax worse exponentially! So I will post something very small then go get in the sunshine and forget this ridiculous problem for a while. Everyone have a great Sunday!!

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
- Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)