First of all, thank you all for your responses and feedback. I should clarify a bit here. What I am most concerned with, is the internet connection piece, rather than the ISP piece. For myself, I am running Quest DSL with the external router they lease, and have IPHouse as my ISP - I had been on Goldengate before that merged with IPHouse. IPHouse is great, and I have also had a very good experience with Quest. Quest has been very stable, and they have dealt with problems promptly and well. IPHouse has been completely problem free. So I know DSL is an option, and apparently Cable connections can be used with Linux also. I know a lot of internet connection offers bundle in the ISP and the Windows software as part of the package, so I was asking about connection options where you don't need to take the Windows part of the package, and have hardware that Linux can talk to. For now I am suggesting my daughter consider DSL with IPHouse as preferred option. Thanks, Charlie -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20070508/5e2ffafc/attachment.htm