Depending on which cable company you are going with, Be careful that they don't nail you for running servers. Make sure you know what the user agreement says. Steve *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 11/13/01 at 4:50 PM Michael wrote: >Unfortunately, DSL is not available in my area. I don't think that the >provider who has DSL monopolized here in my province of Newfoundland Canada, > is not planning expansion any time soon but get this,the Company >the company has applied for a $5.00 per month rate increase on its phone >service! It would make you thro up what you never ate! > because they own the backbone, I doubt they would allow competitors. > Most likely they're going to receive a royalty from the cable companies >any way. On the other hand, That might change now that Cable high speed is >available in there dialup service area. >The DSL provider will certainly loose a big chunk of there dialup customers >so maybe, just maybe, they might do something. I'm not waiting, >I'm jumping over to cable in a couple of weeks. Even if the DSL >monopolizer, which hasn't been to kind and supportive to its rural dialup >customers, >all of a sudden decides to make plans to launch DSL in the spring, >I won't be jumping back . Screw them! LOL <evil grin> > >Michael > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup