I am on my local cable company. I love it!! You do have to check your area. Earthlink sounded good - I looked in to it for a friend, and they don't offer the DSL in my area. There is a new - I guess it's a law - something about telephone companies having to offer DSL. I don't recall the details, since I didn't need it. Or - if it's a new state law for where I live - or a national law! (lot of good I'm doing, huh? ) But - where I live, Verizon is having a big advertising campaign about their dsl lines. I've gotten address changes recently from some friends back home (2 hours from me), that they were changing to verizon. Previously in that area, up until very recently, the only option people seemed to have was AOL. About a year ago, the cable company there started a broadband service. I think I just got the last holdovers jumping from AOL to verizon, telling me about their new e-mail addresses. Cris ----- Original Message ----- From: Bashful Bob To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 7:16 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- DSL companies --- Cindra It would depend what is offered in your area. My understanding is that with some companies (like verizon [sp]) you may have to get a special switch or router that is compatible with their company. An off the shelf stuff may not work with them. So I suggest you ask the company when you check into it. -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/