Hi Chuck, I don't know of anybody who isn't in some kind of fight with verizon in this area who uses or has used verizon dsl. The lady who works across the hall from me had a fight with them too and she's got perfectly good eye sight. That having been said, your cable provider may use pppoe or dhcp, best to ask and find out. You also want to go and buy a router for your modem and tell the cable company you have a router hooked up since it's a different kind of signal that has to be sent to your modem to get it started with a router. Right now and for the past year and a little more I've been on a 14.4 modem. The reason is I didn't purchase and get a router installed. You might ask the cable company if the technician can install the router for you too, some of them can. The technicians gmp cable employs don't officially support Linux but when they get out to a place where Linux is used it's like they turned into Willy Wonka in the chocolate factory. Why did the lack of a router make use of a dialup connection necessary, the cable account and my computer got hacked.
