I love my big series of tubes

I got my internets access upgraded to 12Mbps (download; 1.5Mbps up) today, AND I got a new cable modem, too. The previous modem served well for over six years, but it was DOCSIS 1.1 and was starting to have “issues”. The new one (same modem, new version, pretty much) is humming along just fine now. [...]