I had thought about a cable modem, but comments from some people who have them indicated that performance can be an issue, depending on how many people in your neighbourhood are connected. Some have great service, others complain that it really slows down.

The phone line wasn't changed, but they did attach some kind of connectors to it, probably at both ends. They do test the line before installing and the service is predicated on getting a clean signal. Depends how far you are from the switching station.

I wonder if, with a cable modem, you could sniff the line for packets. Maybe the modem does IP filtering. The price was the same, so I went with ADSL. I could upgrade my package to static IP address and web hosting. The cable companies don't allow it. This way I can have a PC that runs my own VFP web site and I don't have to worry about an ISP allowing VFP COM objects.


>Oh yea, thanks for jarring my memory. Sounds exactly like a cable modem which uses your TV cable. Are you positive it is using your regular phone line? Didn't you have to have your regular phone line replaced with one that could handle ADSL? As far as I remember, ADSL is split into 3 channels. One for 1.5 MB download, one for 256 K upload (compressed to 512 K) and one analog channel for your phone.