[dogsballs]

I have cable internet via a Netgear CG814WG Wireless Cable Modem Gateway. In the last several weeks I kept having dropped connection several times a day. It's expensive when you multi-table; I estimate around a grand's worth in the past 6 weeks. It might drop up to 15-20 times/day. Two tech support visits didn't do anything.

I poked about some tech forums and there's a bunch of posts where the exact same thing happened with that model router. Seems like there's a problem in the past couple months where the combination of this router and the firmware developed by the ISP for it (apparently Netgear solely manufactures the hardware and doesn't supply firmware upgrades for this model) leads to the connection often being temporarily dropped with that particular router. Basically the two companies blame each other if you try phoning with your problem...great communication setup they have...).

I ordered DSL but still have my cable subscription. Should I just say screw cable and go DSL if it looks like it's working? I don't know the difference really.


EDIT: 2nd solution is to purchase my own combination of modem/wireless router. Might that be a problem if I need support issues - they could easily just say - "oh, it's your router, not ours, nothing we can do...you know, typical slithering...