Dear s: I used to be a Bellsouth ADSL customer -- for 2 years. They are extremely unreliable. Forget Bellsouth and switch to Earthlink/Mindspring's Covad ADSL. Covad is available through their affiliates (Mindspring/Covad, Juno/Covad, etc.). I highly, no, VERY HIGHLY recommend Covad, especially Mindspring/Covad (which is now a subsidiary of Earthlink). Extraordinarily reliable, solid, never or almost never goes down (with 25 free hours of dial-up in case it does. Only had to use it once in 4 months). Price: $40 per month. Speed: 1,250 or even 1,300 downstream (you heard it right: 1,250-1,300 downstream), 315 upstream. Twice as fast as Juno/Covad. Linux is supported unofficially. No problem. I also use Internet Sharing connect our two compturers using LM 8.0's new Internet Sharing (see my message on this posted earlier). Go Mindspring! Go Covad! And, oh, I forgot, FREE INSTALLATION (you pay up front, you get a full refund after it's installed). Hardware? Free modem, cables, free NIC card. You can't beat that. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
