Hi, folks, it's Maynard. Am back on line after struggling with BellSouth to get DSL service. The start-up/set-up was a royal pain but ultimately (so far) worth it all. I highly recommend it. No waiting, you're there almost the second you hit the last key. If you are presently using AOL or another ISP AND are paying for a second line to avoid tying up your "real" phone line, and IF you are within 17,000 feet of one of the phone company's magic boxes, you can get into the DSL business with the following implications that I survived. GOOD The money is a push. DSL typically around $50 a month. If you currently have a "content" ISP (a la AOL) you can drop him (about $23 bucks) and drop your second line (about 25 bucks). When they say 50 times faster I believe they are understating it. It's seems really faster. A Symantec (Norton) firewall comes free with the package (or at least it does with BellSouth. BAD If you are using a "content" ISP (a la AOL) you have to give up the training wheels and build your own start up page using pieces from, for example, Yahoo! Its a bear (or it was for me) to get the thing hooked up.....I'm told that is not untypical...maybe a week of intermittant time on line while the RBOC (or whomever) gets all their line problems straight. This is not a persistent "bad" but you can't receive any faster than the sender is sending. So, if you're working with some guy or gal with a 24M modem, you can only receive at 24M. I usually confess up front that I know just enough about the technology to be dangerous so if I have misspoke I trust Lyn or one of our techies willl correct me. Best to all, Maynard