Goodness, I know what you mean about the rain! We have had rain everyday for the past two weeks! Enough already! We are on Comcast Cable (with a bundled package) and our cable has gone out for a few minutes with all the rain. We do not have underground cable lines so I guess maybe some limbs fell on the lines to cause an outage. Okay, here I go again..check out clark.com he is Clark Howard from Atlanta...a total "geek" but a rich one and he has all sorts of info on the best buys for internet service. There is so much technology out there now, I cannot keep up. I would go with a tablet for home use but you need WiFi service. Can you just get WiFi from your local cable and nothing else? Those data phone plans can add up in a hurry.