[newbie] DSL Questions

[Vic]

Hi I am planning to migrate from cablemodem to ADSL
for a while to see if its going to be what I want.

Is the setup basically the same?

I do know that there will be a couple of differences,
like the IP is going to be static so I will have to 
insert the IP address and the sub net mask I think
instead of asking for dhcp stuff.

Is that all I need to know?