After a couple (or few) weeks of annoying (at best) to disastrous (in the case of at least one friend of mine) network problems as Time Warner/Road Runner upgraded, tweaked, and otherwise cranked up their (our?) network, things seem to have finally settled down. My modem hasn't gone into random rebooting fits for days now, which is very nice because the Windows XP "your USB device was just unplugged" sound followed by "a new USB device was just plugged in" sound every few minutes gets old fast. Especially in the middle of the night or in the middle of working on something remotely. One friend thought his router needed a firmware update and was in the middle of installing a new version when the router rebooted itself again, completely hosing it, apparently.
But now things seem somewhat stable again and, though I don't have the advertised 5MB down speed, I can't complain.
