The one thing I have to say is that I am addicted to being connected to the net. From my smartphone to my laptop I kind of wish that every device had the ability to plug-in to the net. I any case, I currently have a Verizon USB727 USB wireless modem. Overall I am very happy with the performance. But it seems that performance seems to vary a bit from minute to minute and hour to hour. I have been finding myself disconnecting and reconnecting to the Verizon network, multiple times of the day. My performance would vary from 50-60Kb all the way to 800-1000Kb. A big variation if you ask me. I had to install the following hotfix... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940646 Additionally I setup my USB727 modem to use the NDIS interface. This allowed me to utilize the OpenDNS DNS servers. I then renamed the connection to "EDVO" and set the OpenDNS servers If you want to set the DNS servers on the command line you can use the following syntax...