[GMMAC]

"I subscribe to Rogers cable .... including broadband ..."

Helluva deal!!! .... at least when the internet "service" happens to be up and running.
(...or so my masochistic friends still doing business with evil Ted Rogers tell me - by phone!)

[Clive]

When I signed up for broadband, it was with Shaw and they later swapped clients with Rogers, Shaw taking western Canada clients and Rogers taking Greater Toronto area clients.

I had explored Sympatico ADSL but they could not assure me that any of their broadband modems would work under Linux or OS/2 which were the two operating systems that I was using (I am now using Linux and have Win2000 aboard only at the request of my son). Since then I have been able to help other linux users around the world connect to ADSL service but it is not worth switching at this stage of the game. BTW, Rogers broadband is now Rogers-Yahoo and so the broadband part is really Yahoo.

Satellite broadband service is simply not an option. the signal lag is too great because the signal has to go out to the geosynchronous orbit and back.