[Stuart]

These days when all Macs (and in my experience, nearly all PCs) come with on board ethernet, and Macs & PCs are good at configuring Ethernet automatically, I find it absolutely amazing that any ISP would even consider supplying USB kit without Ethernet as an option. It's just one more area where users can have problems, and that adds to tech support waiting times.

I'll admit, they do have to cater for older PCs without Ethernet ports. I specified PCs as I have been supporting Macs for nearly ten years now, and have never seen one without onboard Ethernet.

One thing to be aware of. Despite the rumour that is often passed around by PC world, the Airport network cards ARE compatible with standard wireless routers (such as those by D-Link and Netgear, which are cheaper than airport base stations, and some models do come with built in ADSL modems). I know, I use an iBook G3 with and Airport card, and it's reliable on a D-Link router. More so than D-Link's own laptop network cards.