NOT SO COOL INTERNET PROBLEMs.

[PcNerd1337]

a thunderstorm hit my land pretty hard yall me being from the rural area this cause my hardware to blow up. my cable modem fried and wont turn on at all, i tell u what. and so i went out to walmart and bought a brand spanking new cable modem. a wifi and cable model. top of the line said the salesman. but now my pc is current plugged in with the telephone cord straight up to the cable modem box. yeah i still get like. kicked out. the net dies every now and then for both me and wifi users? like a quick dying. 5-10secs. is it my modem or is it the wires in my house broken? i need help yall

 

[Alabalcho]

If you are getting Internet over coax cable, in most cables the replacement modem (or combo modem-router, often called "gateway") must be approved by your ISP. Same applies to DSL lines (you are plugging a telephone line into the gateway).

I would call ISP to sort this out.