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When we first signed up for high speed Internet connection from Cox, they were charging $10 per month for the cable modem. The next time I visited Costco, I discovered that they carried cable modems in their computer department. I got a Toshiba for, if I recall correctly, about $90.
We've had slow Internet connections for the past two months, possibly much longer. I blamed part of it on my Windows computer, which turned out to have a bad hard drive. The Compaq computer with its original hard drive was even older than the Toshiba modem. It was no surprise it had died.
Then my Mac Mini started having slow connections due to a bad wireless card. I got that fixed, too.
The slowdown continued to get worse. It got to the point that I could play one or two games of Freecell between pages on multi-page sites. Freecell is a time-waster for me, something I use when I would otherwise just be staring at the screen, waiting. I'm not an expert. I'm not very fast at all, partly because I add extra problems to make it more interesting. For example, I try to arrange the suits in alternating black and red on the playing field, which is totally unnecessary but uses up lots of time.
So I called Cox. They sent out a technician today. The old Toshiba modem was, indeed, worn out. It was dropping connectivity frequently for periods of several minutes at a time. It was replaced with a new cable modem.
Two new problems were also found: the Yoggie power connection was loose, causing it to drop out; and the Apple Time Capsule wouldn't revert to DCHP, requiring that it be reset to factory configuration. But now I can get stuff off the net at a reasonable speed again.
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