thank god I have verizon in my area. I pay like 20 a month for a 768kb/s line, its not the fastest thing but its a reliable connection, and i get like 160-200 dl speed. although i will say this about comcast, we recently upgraded to digital cable w/ the hd package, and it wasn't working very well, and we couldn't get hd channels, and after tinkering with it for a while the guy who came out replaced every single wire goign from the telephone pole to our house, well, only the lines that he could get lines for. which was pretty much every wire short of electrical lines. and they only charged us for what they actually were called in to do. so i got a sweet new setup of wires for free.