I dislike my ISP as well lately there alexsdsu, they have been working on our lines lately because they are upgrading the systems here for DOCSIS-3 by September 15th, and we get a lot of drops, and random speeds lately.
(For Perplexing: If you just look around, find some older drives. Maybe some 250+GB drives, toss them on a board with at least 1GB of RAM better if you have 2GB. And a cheap dual core CPU, you can get one together. I ran a really rugged box until I went about a month ago and got some spare cash to build the one I have now.)