DSL Information

High Speed Internet Access is now available in our community via Bell South's DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) service.

DSL is a great technology that works over your existing phone line, and allows you to access the internet many times faster than dial up, and you can use the phone at the same time!  No more busy signals!  No more waiting for pages to load or choppy video!

Click here to order DSL from Bell South!

If you have more than one computer in your home, and you want all of them to share the DSL line, and share printers, files, etc... then one simple additional piece of hardware will not only allow all of this, but also allow you to use your laptop anywhere in your home via a wireless link.  These devices come in many "flavors" but I currently recommend the Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G Broadband Router.

Click here to buy it from NewEgg for $52.99 after rebate! ($6.67 3 day shipping.)
Update - Click here to buy it from ZipZoomFly for $39.99 after rebate!!! (FREE Shipping)

This device plugs into your DSL "Modem" instead of your computer, and then you either connect your computer to it (So it sits between your computer and the DSL "Modem" or you connect to it wirelessly.

A HUGE advantage of this device, above and beyond what was mentioned in the previous paragraph is that it acts as HARDWARE FIREWALL - Protecting your machines from hackers, and worms 24x7 - WELL WORTH $39.99 EVEN IF YOU HAVE ONLY 1 PC and DON'T CURRENTLY NEED WIRELESS!!!

There are 4 wired ports on it to hook up 4 computers in your house via wire (Expandable) and as many as you want via wireless.

So if you have a computer in the office, and another in the bedroom, both can share the DSL line, both share files back and forth, both share printers, etc...

Give me a call if you need help setting any of this up - I'm happy to help - Here is a diagram I did to show how to connect things: