Thank you for all of your responses regarding ISPs. I decided to go with Woosh. I bought the equipment at Dick Smith Electronics. I was online less than a half hour after I walked in the door. I'm able to connect to my VPN and everything is working well. At first I was using the "Roaring Penguin" PPPoE tool (ref: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/penguin/openSourceProducts/rpPppoe), but then realized I didn't need it. Searching Synaptic for pppoe revealed that I already had pppoeconfig installed (/usr/sbin/pppoeconf) and now I just type pon to connect and poff to disconnect. I think it's set up to start when I boot, too, but I haven't rebooted since hooking up. By the way, I have a bunch of other pppoe tools in /usr/sbin. Does anyone know what they're for, or what package they're from? vince at vjlaptop:/etc/ppp/peers$ ls -ltr /usr/sbin/pppoe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16992 2006-07-11 07:13 /usr/sbin/pppoe-discovery -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16440 2006-10-23 23:25 /usr/sbin/pppoeconf -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 6704 2007-01-04 19:05 /usr/sbin/pppoe-wrapper -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2323 2007-01-04 19:05 /usr/sbin/pppoe-stop -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2165 2007-01-04 19:05 /usr/sbin/pppoe-status -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5603 2007-01-04 19:05 /usr/sbin/pppoe-start -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 45141 2007-01-04 19:05 /usr/sbin/pppoe-sniff -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9603 2007-01-04 19:05 /usr/sbin/pppoe-setup -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 111060 2007-01-04 19:05 /usr/sbin/pppoe-server -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 71096 2007-01-04 19:05 /usr/sbin/pppoe-relay -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8959 2007-01-04 19:05 /usr/sbin/pppoe-connect -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 80711 2007-01-04 19:05 /usr/sbin/pppoe The speed seems quite good to me, but I've been informed that I'm less than a block from the transmitter. When I move I will probably notice the difference. -- Vince
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