Internet outages suck ass. We rearranged our livingroom recently and about a week after doing so we began to see our cable internet signal degrade. Gradually, over the course of the last month or so, it's been getting worse, and now it actually goes completely out for spurts. This is particularly irritating for me seeing as how I just began playing Everquest II again, which is an online game. So I guess I'll be calling Comcast tomorrow to schedule a service call. I've already tried all the simple crap that they tell you to do when you first call tech support. I've tried changing every coaxial cable in the line between the wall and the modem. When we moved our furniture (computer desks included) we didn't change the way we had our system wired. We have had one four-way splitter feeding the modem, the tv, and my computer's tv card since we moved to this apartment three years ago and we never had a problem anywhere near this severe until now. /vent off.