I just signed up for DSL through Bell South -- I live in a small village on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. For the past few weeks, as I bicycle and run around town, I have noticed Bell South crews working. The guys told me they were upgrading the local service to provide DSL -- which is now available. I'm about 2,000 feet from the CO.
As I understand DSL, it's just like my cable service in that it is always on -- don't have to dial up anything, just start my browser or e-mail app and there it is -- right? (After loading my user name, password, etc., into the appropriate blanks.)
Also -- I currently run a cable modem with Cat 5 cable to router; one Cat 5 from router to my desktop PC, one Cat 5 cable to a wireless access point -- I have a wireless card on my laptop. I assume I just unplug the Cat 5 from my cable modem and plug it into the DSL modem output jack and I can use my same router and wireless access point.
Thanks.