  i am relieved because we finally got a cable modem. it isn't much faster and i can't download anything to save my life (2KB/sec), but at least it stays connected... actually i have had to call tech support 8 times since it was installed two days ago. i have reformatted my hard drive twice, tweaked every possible setting, and installed all kinds of optimizers. now i am stuck with ie5! like i said, the downloads are so slooooow. when i d/l from microsoft's server, the transfer rate is around 350 bytes/sec and the connection gets timed out and or reset! ARG! 
