As long as your system supports the protocol that is rquired by your ISP, you should not have any trouble hooking up to the high-speed line. I tend to like using a router, because it handles all of the communication with ISP. Richard On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Michael wrote: > > > Hello list: > > Now that high speed internet access is available in my area, does the > provider have to support Linux and is there away around that. > I spoke to two providers and they're are not going to support Linux in the > fore seeable future. > Granted, the two people I spoke to were not and I say again, were not OS > savvyy. LOL <grin> > Best regards: > > Michael > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >