Hi guys and thank you for your concern.
As has been said, I had some trouble getting my cable internet connected. This was due to the previous owner having cut the phone line/cable leading into the house from the street when he had an excavator on the property prior to sale. The owner said that he had fixed the conduit which carried the cables, but this unfortunately was not the case. When the cable guy came out to connect us last week he couldn't feed the coaxial cable through the conduit, which meant that we had to trench in a new line to the house. Subsequently, we had to make a new appointment for the cable installation which took another week....grrrr. Anyway, I'm back online now which is damn sweet if I say so myself.