Except, what’s crazy is that they do. I have an ISP-provided Xyzel C1100 modem, and sometimes it does just randomly crash and take about a minute to reload if we’re doing to much. I’d buy a good DSL modem, but it happens just under the threshold where I’d buy a $100 modem to fix it.

They are often not actively cooled and not build for high CPU usage and the heat that generates.

Except they do.

And I have no idea why either, just like you said, passing bit around.