I have been using Earthlink for about 9 years, first on dial up and now with dsl. I have never had any serious problems and they support the Mac just fine. I have called help twice for the answer to questions I had and they were always helpful. One call concerned a billing error and the first person I talked with made the correction immediately. I do not use any earthlink software on my computer but I do have the ISP spam filter set on medium and that catches about 90% of my spam. I have had only one address in the 9 years. Some of their software was PC only but that never bothered me at all. I will admit that there are some cheaper services out there and some of them very good but from what I see on the forums, the free services are not worth the trouble if there are any free ones left. I realize that others do have problems but that is not true for everyone. S. Kennedy