My internet connectivity is still highly unreliable, and the ISP still did not state a new ETA of a fix. If I want to do anything slightly more involved than keep my computers going with a comfortably sized work buffer, I've got a lot of hand-holding to do. Figuring out that my connection just went down (because the modem-router usually does not detect that it lost connectivity*), resetting the modem (because it usually does not attempt to reconnect itself), waiting for the connection to come back, checking if any hosts need some nudges to resume stuck transfers and such. Which I obviously can't do at workdays and don't look forward to be doing on the weekend. >:-(
Unfortunately, the other ISPs here offer worse upload bandwidth than my current ISP's, which is already dismal for some traffic-intensive DC projects.
Dual contracts would be nice, if a contract could be had for just a short time like three weeks…
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*) i.e., often doesn't detect it neither on the IP layer nor on the DOCSIS layer. Considering this, it seems quite possible that the modem-router firmware was intentionally crippled, so that the provider's systems don't have to deal with reconnection storms from their customers after a line went back up. If so, tossing the ISP supplied modem for a 3rd party modem might ease at least this part of the pains. Maybe.