hk wrote:
Our cable provider is having some sort of trouble today, so I had to
find and hook up my silly old modem in order to send off a 44-page
manuscript.

Anyway, I called the cable co to report the outage and while I was
waiting for the gal on the line to get an answer to "why," she was
starting to try to sell me on VOIP. I started laughing and said, "If i
had VOIP, I wouldn't be able to make this call..."

She didn't get it.

Recently you were touting your 20 Mb/sec DSL. Did you just switch to
cable for the Internet?