DISCLAIMER: Even though I'm posting this from my personal account, I work for Yipes Communications, who is a competitor of Cogent. Please take anything I say with the appropriate amounts of salt. I promise I'll try not to advertise too much. The comments I write below are mine and mine alone, however, and do not reflect on Yipes Communications, or my DSL provider, or anyone else but me. ;) In fact, to be fair, about the only thing I think I can, or should, say is that there are other providers out there than Cogent. There was a Slashdot thread, for those who care about such things: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/05/1317235&mode=nested Working for a competitor, I shouldn't say much else at this point, lest it appear I be attempting to spread FUD. If you have any questions about what we provide, please send them to me offlist and I'll try to get them answered. --mec