So yesterday evening I got to eat a little crow and go back on a stance I’ve been taking for the past decade. It wasn’t too bad, maybe a little salty, but it taught me yet again to be careful when I say I’ll never do something. I’m talking of course about my saying “I will never use a cable modem service” as I’ve been a loyal DSL customer since the late ’90s now. Last night we ran by BestBuy and picked up a Motorola SURFboard eXtreme Broadband Cable Modem (SB6120) and then home to call Comcast to add high-speed internet to our existing cable service. Less than 30 minutes later we were surfing over cable rather than DSL.

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