jjboland writes: > well, at&t has got my internet access back from the depths > of @home hell. i haven't been particularly pleased with > the way their customer support folks handled my call. i've > called RCN and slightly less money per month, they'll handle > my cable, phone, and internet access. anybody care to share > their experiences with either rcn or at&t mediaone? i've had rcn phone/cable/cablemodem since june '01 and have had no real problems at all, though i don't run a local server but just use them for internet access. initially they did give me some linux pointers to get started, which helped in setting up dcphpc, but since then i've had a cable router (netgear rt314) which took care of that part of it. on maybe three occasions since then, connection to the internet was severed (why, i have no idea), but powering off/on the us robotics ctx cable modem and the netgear box fixed the problem. dan j. daniel moylan 84 harvard ave #2 brookline, ma 02446-6202 617-232-2360 (tel) 810-454-1823 (fax) jdm34@cornell.edu oledan.pair.com