It has been over a week since I got the replacement modem... So what's it like so far?

Heaven. Over the course of the entire week, I've only had one case of lag inside World of Warcraft, which my brother did not experience, so I'm inclined to think it was a client software hiccup instead of a connection problem, and there have been two dropped connections during massive torrent downloads. In each case of dropped connections, the modem acquired a new IP in less than 10 seconds, so while all my programs had to reconnect, I never had to manually reboot the modem and screw around with restarting network interfaces on the overly complicated Linux router.

We've played through an entire week's work of Karazhan raids and not a single disconnect. In fact, we got to watch other people struggle with their connections! While that... Is still kinda bad? It was really nice to have it happen to someone else instead of us... In a way. It's still bad, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone, but still. Better you than me with my expensive new modem. It cost plenty of money, so it better darn well do its job! I haven't actually used wireless, yet... Well, I use it for the Wii, and I haven't got the DSes to acquire an IP from the router (which I need to look into), but I haven't really had a chance to use it, yet. I have no encryption, but I have MAC filtering, so if someone really wants to? They can sniff the packets and see what I'm doing, but they can't actually access the network without, you know... Spoofing a MAC address and screwing it up for everyone involved. Yeah, that's right. I even filter my Nintendo stuff. It was far cooler when I had to probe a connection and snag the MAC off the router logs, but then I learned that you can get the MAC address in the wireless settings of the thinigs... So while that made it easier, it was far less fun.

Anyway... I... Really don't know why I decided to write about this, but I'm going to bed now.