After All That Pledging

 ... the best I can do is a quick post about a balky modem.

We were having intermittent Internet outages seemingly centered around our Wi-Fi so I, in all my networkery, bought a Netgear Orbi Wi-Fi system. It's a mesh network which will allow our vast Catican Compound, all 7500 square feet of it, to be covered with generous amounts of mental-illness-causing* 2.4 GHz radiation. What fun!

It didn't work. I then decided the problem might be the modem so I bought a replacement Netgear modem and plugged it in properly. Easy-peasy, right?

Wrong. After several attempts and a few calls to Spectrum, it was determined that the new Netgear modem I had bought was incompatible with Spectrum's signals. They wanted the hip, modern, cool-o DOCSIS 3.1 and my modem was back in Squaresville, running DOCSIS 3.0. 

Back to Beast Buy to replace the 3.0 toad and get a snazzy 3.1 model. Voila! It works!

I replaced a modem and it only took about 4 hours of work.

I feel like Job.

Oh Lord, my God, why dost thou forsake me and hand me over to these preposterous Internet protocols and specifications? I preferred the boils and carbuncles! Take my cattle and kine, but leave me my high-speed Internet!

* - No, I don't believe in that nonsense.