In my area, Adelphia (going out of business being bought out by Comcast), Comcast and BellSouth DSL are the most common choices. BellSouth offers 3 flavors of DSL the first being only slightly faster than dialup, the second being about 1.5 mb/sec and the third about 2 mb/sec. Comcast and Adelphia are about equal (what a coincidence!) and you get about 4 to 5 mb/sec. BellSouth is also flakey and their support down here is notoriously horrid. Cable, on the other hand is rarely, if ever--even during hurricanes--down. BellSouth goes down with a lightening strike. I live in South Florida, so that can be a problem. My recommendation is Cable! Oh, I also once tried Direcpc--what a mistake! It was S L O W and very expensive. Tim On Oct 11, 2005, at 2:30 PM, Daniel Brieck Jr. wrote: Exterminate all rational though.