I have found that with cable, the problems with being connected are easily solved by pulling the power cord from the back for about 5 seconds, and plugging it back in again. Glenn. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cheryl Homiak" <chomiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <igueths at comcast.net>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 8:26 AM Subject: Re: broadband connectivity advice Actually, even in linux, sometimes if you do lose your connection rebooting does restart it. So I would try rebooting before I call them, then you never have to argue that you don't have to reboot because you are running linux.