Its exciting at first, but becomes a part of life. Its wonderful! Prepare to get spoiled! I know that when I go on vacation now, and only have access to dial up, its mental torture.........and I'm not kidding! I hate the slowness, and that you can't use the phone when online, and that you have to dial up everytime you want to go online! With DSL, that's all over....and getting a wireless network makes things even better! We have DSL on all 4 computers with the network and can use them anytime at the same time! I LOVE DSL!