01.09.2003
Not fun
Well, I was having a good last Tuesday until we had a slight power problem. I got home and found (luckily) that all my boxes had come back successfully - with the exception of some nasty error messages on my gateway about being unable to find a dhcp server.
I looked at the cable modem to note to my horror that only the power light was on 
Short end to the tale - after a fair few hours of stuffing around, I now have a dead cable modem. Being out of contract, getting a new one would hurt a lot and I had been meaning to move to ADSL for a fair while (inertia had been stopping me). This prompted the move and I signed up with Internode the same night.
Over the next few days, Internode did everything right and I managed to get a second hand Dlink dsl-300 modem cheap which was very pleasing. Got back from the south coast last night and found that my line was now provisioned. Being late I only had time for a quick play using the laptop but it worked :))
So I now have 266% more data to leech at a slower rate (but I don’t play games much any more so that isn’t a big issue) and life will return back to normal. Lots of configuration work required later today when I get back from work but such is life 
Linux thing of the day to look up: apt-cache show ifenslave