Does anyone have any experience with Mediacom (as a cable internet provider)? My high speed access options (in Maple Plain) are either DSL through Citizen Communications (~$50/mo) or Cable through Mediacom (~$30/mo if I get my own Cable modem). My employer will allow me to access their VPN (in windoze) over cable/DSL if I use a Linksys Router like the BEFSR41. The best price I see local is about $90 at MicroCenter or BestBuy, but Amazon.com has them for $70. Any other good deals I've overlooked? Does the Linksys Router do anything more than NAT? (Doesn't a Cisco 675/678 DSL router do NAT? - my church doesn't have a firewall (hardware or pc), but I'd swear the Cisco 675 there is doing NAT) I don't understand what other benefits I would get if I setup a linux pc to act as a firewall? (any good sites that explain this?) Thanks, Mike Nixon