I am happy to tell you that I finally changed my crappy old dialup connection to a broadband ADSL. This should mean a lot not only to me but to everybody here because it's obvious that I'll be able to provide more multimedia content at the sites.
For those who are interested, I have a D-Link Ethernet card which was auto-configured by my Linux box (didn't touch a thing!) and D-Link DSL-500T modem (which runs Linux inside too, hehe

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