Art, you're paying too much. Earthlink lowered their prices some time back, but I think they won't actually lower it for you unless you call them about something. I had a matter to discuss with them and while they were at it they dropped my monthly bill by $10.

Everything has been pretty well covered already. My kit from Earthlink came with 3 phone filters for the regular telephone lines - and these are needed if you want to make regular calls because the DSL mucks up the line otherwise. You might need to get an ethernet/network cable (the jack looks like a phone plug, only bigger) if one doesn't come with your DSL kit. Shorter is better. Your PC almost certainly has an ethernet plug if it is less than 10 years or so old; if it doesn't, the card to install one costs about $20.00.

You probably don't actually need those phone filters, but they're there for "just in case." I had a filter wired in at the point where the phone line enters the house and that line is dedicated to the DSL only, the there aren't any other filters needed.

Earthlink is providing my slow DSL over the regular copper lines, but most of the other providers in the area aren't offering it because AT&T is still putting in the fiber optic lines. Until those are in, they're not offering the slower speeds that I'm getting now.

SRS