Stormy,
There are two common broadband methods in Aus - cable and ADSL.
Cable comes through the same cable (doh!) as your cable TV service, if you have it. I don't have it, so am not really familiar, but haven't heard of the "reset" aspect I discussed in my last post.
ADSL is via your phone line. That's the one that may require the occasional reset.
If your broadband is cable, your computer gear will be connected to the wall with power leads and a fattish (thickness of a pencil) round signal cable like a TV antenna cable, probably black but maybe white or brown. I think the connector in the wall socket will be the similar to a TV outlet - round.
If ADSL, you'll be connected to the wall with power cables and a phone line, probably flat, but could be thin round, maybe half as thick as a pencil, probably cream coloured, but maybe black. The socket in the wall will be a small (about 12mm, half inch) roughly square hole or one of those horrible big flat Telstra 4 prong things that lies flat against the wall.
HTH
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I\'m not sure I agree with everything LL34 said - he\'s in UK and things are different over there. (Not trying to be dismissive, LL, but fast internet is relatively new here and our telcos are doing it a bit differently from yours - and charging an arm and a leg for a lesser service.
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But it doesn\'t matter too much, Stormy - your high speed internet connection is either via cable which probably doesn\'t need refreshing (but am not sure about that, maybe someone with Aussie cable experience can help) or via the phone-line based ADSL which maybe does, from time to time.
Try it, see how you go.
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Another edit: Dunno what's going on here - tried to post a separate message after my last and the system tacked the text into my post, adding the "" characters. Tried twice, I did, same result.
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