If you are having problems with a DSL hook up you might try a Kludge Box.

Well if anyone has ever built a Kludge Box then they know what they are.

Have been running Pac Bell DSL Hell for a while, using the internal PCI card (crap). It kept locking up my system which has been fine for some 12 months before this card
showed up. The only solution was to get it out of the computer and on its own. From the
junk pile came a Kludge Box

Bigest, tallest vertical tower case you ever saw.
300 Watt power supply for a AT case.
Socket 7 MB with a 400mhz K6
2 NE2000 cards
DSL card
64mb simm
270 MB drive
2x cd rom and 1.44 floppy

The MB was jumper set down to 166mhz and a fixed heat sink added (no fan)
The power supply had the cover removed, fan removed and hole opened up.
Everything shoved into the box that now left the only moving part being the HD

Installed WIN95, ZoneAlarm, Smasher, a Dos based hard drive sleep program and a "ping" program. Finally DSL drivers. Other wise the system us gutted and stripped.

So now it boots up and logs on DSL, the drive goes to sleep in 3 minutes and
from then on there is no noise or moving parts. My main system is linked via
a twisted line. Besides it makes a good lamp stand which is what it is doing now.

Later it will get a 1 page web page with a few links, IP dynamic to fixed
translator.

You say so what, everyone else is doing it, well this box has no keyboard mouse or monitor. I just switch it off and when it powers up it takes the short detour of scan disk and then comes full up. After all, how long does it take to scan a 270mb drive which has no errors anyway. Now my main
system is free of the questionable card and software plus a web server is on the way. This room doesn't need a heater, there are 5 systems running in here now.

Cheap and Dirty fix, a Kludge Box