Also, the basic prices we're offering are for personal, non-commercial, client-side side use. You can't use a basic DSL account to host a web site. If you want to run Internet server applications, go to the "What's the cost of server/commercial DSL?" section.

Bandwidth to the Internet is very expensive and a major part of what makes the low prices we're delivering available to you is that we're able to count on a certain network latency.

In other words, your 256K circuit is not constantly passing data -- it's quiet when you're not at work with it and that the bandwidth can be used by others.

Remember, we're able to offer these services at such a low price because we can balance usage. If a couple of people were to put up, say, a porn server on their end it would ruin access for everyone.

CSD Internet DSL falls into that fine old Internet tradition -- everyone pulls together and everyone benefits.

By the way, what is described above is pretty much standard in the industry -- it's just that some places aren't so up-front about describing the situation.

For normal client side use -- in other words what virtually all of you do today, browsing the web, getting and sending e-mail, reading USENET newsgroups -- the DSL circuit is a perfect vehicle.