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My cable is faster than DSL...and we can't get DSL in our area anyway.

And it's not that expensive. I keep hearing the cost is high from Juno or Earthlink dialup users that crow about a $10 a month fee! Great if you like waiting and disconnects and slow page loads.

I was paying $25 for Compuserve and now pay $40 for Comcast. I then turned off my second phone line and saved $30 a month. So I'm paying less overall for better speed and service.

If the cable modem goes down for any reason, which it has for a few days once in 3 years, I have a few free AOL dial up CD's I get in the mail and use them for backup if I'm deparate...like when the cable went down for 2 days during the war and I was addicted to the LIVE Thread! :-)

I had DSL with Eartlink and it was $49/mo. for 1.5k down but never got better than say 790k. Then my service was cancelled because of Alltel buying out Verizion in my area.

I looked into other DSL offereing in my area because I was not impressed with the cable offering or so I thought. The best prices I could find for a DSL replacement service ran around the the same as Earthlink but half the download speed. Or around $70 if I wanted the 1.5k potential that I had previously had.

So, I switched to cable. As it turned out being a digital cable subscriber my price was reduced from $44 to $34. Speeds as mentioned above are considerably faster. Only downside is their NNTP offering and servers stink.