About a month ago I got a notice from Comcast, suggesting I get a newer modem in order to fully access the latest and best high speed Internet.  So I follow the instructions and eventually I am informed that the new equipment is on its way.

This is my current Internet modem:

Smaller and lighter than a flip-flop, right.  Cool.

So today, Mr. UPS brings me this package, marked to be 5 pounds:

Same flip-flop.   What the hell???

No I haven’t opened the box yet.  I am afraid to discover I may need to upgrade my computer and/or get some sort of wireless doo-hickey or something.   I am going to start unpacking with the assumption there are instructions inside.

I confess: I am intimidated just by the size and weight.   I was expecting something more keeping with the modem I already have.    We shall see.

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update:

this is the important part of what was in the box:

The rest of it was instructions, new coax cable, etc.    This will require taking my world apart and disconnecting everything and reassembling all the new stuff back togather.   And finding a different place for this giant modem, because it sure as hell won’t fit back into the hidey-hole where the current modem lives.