I recently went to broadband (cable) and wireless (three computers in the house). I loaded the Symantec Security suite (firewall, antivirus, etc.), and I have all the precautions set up on my router (actually, a friend who writes books on computers set it up for me, bless his heart!).

First of all, with broadband, things load very quickly, sometimes instantaneously. I got very good with "Minesweeper" (expert level) while waiting for pages to load. I don't have time to play it much anymore.

Second, every now and then, I go to "Shields Up!" and have it probe my computer for vulnerabilities. Since I went broadband and wireless (complete with firewalls, etc.), "Shields Up" tells me that I'm invisible.

Like warping through cyberspace with a Romulan cloaking device. Hard to attack something you don't even know is there.

Go for it.

Don Firth