[mikhael]

There's no changing of the bandwidth. If you've got television cable signal in your house, you've got broadband signal in your house (assuming they haven't installed a filter, which is very unlikely). What has to happen is they have to have the MAC of your cable modem in the central system at the head end. When that system sees a MAC it recognizes, it hands it an IP address, etc. Without that initial recognition, you won't get anything. That's what you're paying for.

[Hippo]

check your ICQ too... i'll re-ask here though...

[q]From Hippos ICQ message:

you said you used AOL and a standard connection... This intregues me, since im trying to avoid paying the comcast stuff, so that we can keep AOL (all I use it for is email)) without paying a lot of money... Is this what you did? Or did you have to get a service that would charge you the service money... It sounded like you were simply running with AOL for broadband, which is now advertised at about the same as dialup...
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