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> 2. What has the comparable DSL and DirectPC (if available) experience
> been in the NW Suburbs?

I could comment on this, stay away from DirecPC, first it is uni-directional
and you would still need an ISP to send url request. If you're more
downloading than Uploading then it might be worth it, but we had
probs with them, turning the speed down if we downloaded too
much (which we did).

I'd say if you can get DSL go for it, then Cable. And make sure you have
decent firewall programs. I have friends who used Flashcom in Schaumburg
and are pretty mad at them and moving with Ameritech.

> 3. How frequent is downtime? 8-12 hours a week? Any dial-up backup?
> With Mediaone it was sporadic, once went 4 days without cable, had to
> use their 28.8 dial-up server.

I also have friends using Media-one in Hoffman Estates, they had problems
with really slow downloads at night and packet losses, mediaone told them
that they were adding new nodes, but I don't know anything about it.

> 4. Now that TCI has capped uploads at 128KBps, how does that affect
> running IIS5 or Apache?

Shouldn't matter...