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So, I'm a geek. I love computers and I love programming them. So, this means I need high-speed internet all the time, at home. I'd love to have it on the run as well, but that's a little out of my price range right now.       DSL is a great technology. It's too bad it came about and became affordable so late after the web boom, but so be it and now we've got it. It just happens that for some reason, it's still tough to get it hooked up right the first time.       My new install with Speakeasy (www.speakeasy.net) seemed to go all right and they're good, knowledgeable people, unlike SBC. So, the internet is all up and running right? Wrong. After three days of tinkering, I finally discovered that quite literally, there was a screw loose. One of the termination blocks for the jack was just floating there. It's amazing I got anything at all. Thankfully that's all fixed and I'm a happy campy, cruising along at speeds that were unimagineable fifteen years ago. Well, okay, imagineable, but hard to grasp since 800 k was wicked bad-assed then.