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Message: [QUOTE="spanky250, post: 231985, member: 20897"] Charter Pipeline will be your internet connection, just as a telephone line is now. It is not the same as having to connect to an ISP over a phone line. You will be able to choose any homepage you want for your browser to open up to, but you will always be connected to the net anytime the PC is turned on, unlike the dial-up you are used to. If you still want to have AOL for some (unfathomable to me) reason, they offer a package for people with broadband connections for around $9.95 a month (in addition to the $39.95 you will pay for the cable modem) I believe, that will allow you to connect to your AOL account with the cable connection. This is not neccessary with the cable, but it will allow you to keep your AOL address book and whatever else you use AOL for. A word of advice: with broadband, your PC is connected to the internet whenever it is turned on, so a firewall is a must-have if you don't want to get hacked. You can download free software firewalls such as Zone Alarm, or get a hardware firewall. Make the switch! Once you experience the speed of cable, you will never go back to a dial-up connection again.:) Changing from one website to another is almost as fast as changing channels on the TV. You will be able to do things on the net that you were never able to do on a phone line, like streaming video that doesn't look like a series of still shots being flicked quickly. [/QUOTE]