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[ljr <daerid AT io.com>]

Greetings everyone.  This is my first post to Internetworkers.  I hope
you'll all excuse me for it being a technical question.  I'm still
researching this on my own as well, but I thought I'd see if anyone had
any ideas.

OK, that might not be the clearest subject - here goes.  Most cable modems
I know of, and all the DSL systems I've heard of (until yesterday) provide
a WAN connection in the form of an RJ-45 port.  This means it's easy to
plug your cable modem or DSL box into a Linksys Router (like the BEFSR41 -
EtherFast 4-Port Cable/DSL Router, for instance).  There are other
companies who make this kind of thing.  I don't know a lot of them off the
top of my head.
But yesterday I heard that the Bellsouth FastAccess service provides their
users with a USB modem - you plug in an RJ-11 cable they provide from the
wall to the modem, and then a USB cable from the modem to a computer.
This makes it a little hard to plug into a router like the above one I
mentioned.  Anyone know if there is a router that performs the functions
of the Linksys above, but has a way for me to plug into one of the USB
type DSL modems?

Any advice or company names or anything is appreciated.

Lyman Green

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Don't Panic!