Attempting to download 2G TV shows and 6G movies puts a bit of pressure on your intarweb connection. I just found out that my cable company doubled the bandwidth in my area, to 6mbit, for free - over 1 month ago. Yet I am still only getting 3mb, even after several modem reboots. Hmm, that modem I am leasing is huge, old, and looks like someone drug it behind a car for a few miles. When they gave it to me last year, my first thought was "you've got to be kidding me". It is probably a 1st generation device made back in the mid 90s. Sure enough, a quick call to the cable company confirms that I need a newer modem, -one that goes to 11. Sometime next week I should have bandwidth, sweet bandwidth.

And then your little 20 GB xbox girly disk will be all full.

Oh yes, full. Standard 360 drive only gives 13G of usable space. I'm pretty sure they will release something to solve this soon. ;)

Well my modem showed up on Monday. This morning I called them early to get it provisioned. For a few fleeting moments I was pulling down a little more than 5 mbit. But now I am lucky to get 1 mbit. The problem, I suspect, is that much of Redmond (Microsoft) and the surrounding suburbs are working from home today due to the snow storm (myself included). Ahh the joys of a shared connection. I guess I'll have to wait until off peak hours to find out what this modem can do.

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