I am being frustrated by cable modem outages.  You don’t realize how much you use it until it doesn’t work.  The system has been going down randomly for the past few days, usually in the evenings. 

But I experienced a power-related cable modem outage this morning.  We had a very short power outage this morning (just one or two seconds).  Whenever the power takes a hit, I have to force a DHCP lease renewal before my internet connection will work again.  Since my router and cable modem are protected by my UPS, it makes me suspect that Charter doesn’t have a backup power supply on their headend.