I had Qwest DSL for a while. Last December, rather than getting sucked into the Borg ... uh, MSN black-hole, I opted to switch ISPs to GetNet/InfiCad. Things were a little bumpy at take-off because they were deluged with people switching over from Qwest. But since mid-Feb or so, I've had zero problems with the basic service. Qwest still provides the wiring, but it's routed through GetNet. I've got 2 static IPs (they don't offer dynamic IPs), and I'm paying somewhere around $50/mo -- GetNet bills me $17 and Qwest bills me $29 or so. This is for a basic 640d/256u DSL line. I've also got a SOHOWare NGP-800 4-port firewall/router/switch that does NATting so I can hook up any number of machines to my local network. (With the way they handle static IPs, the Cisco 657 won't run its DHCP server, so another device is needed. Perhaps newer model modems fix this limitation.) There is one annoyance with the DSL service -- the GetNet nameserver response times are incredibly slow. I used the @Home nameservers until they started timing out, and now I use the Qwest ones. (I'm not proud; if I get a decent response time, then I'll use 'em!) I still experience time-outs every few days, which seems rather high, but I figure it's got more to do with Qwest than anything else. (The problem has become noticeably worse over the past 2-3 weeks.) -David Schwartz