Argh! ADSL woes!

Stupid new ADSL modem doesn't like stupid long ethernet stupid cables, so we're back to using the slow old ADSL modem (which has served us faithfully for years). The new one worked for a bit last night, and for a bit this evening when I jiggled the cable, but then it died. Probably some requires-cat5e-cable-not-dodgy-homemade-cable malarkey. Anyways, it seems to work if I have a short ethernet cable and a long phone cable, but I don't have a phone cable quite long enough to run without turning the house into some sort of Shelob's Lair of Networking, which Mrs B seems to have some weird objection to. Chicks, eh? Whatcha gonna do?

The upshot is that tomorrow is Go Visit The Nice Cable Selling People Day, and until then I'm living like some kind of Saxon serf in the dark ages with only a 1.5Mb connections to the interwebs.