The local search engine is particularly helpful. The satisfaction level has been much higher than we expected and the speed is really zippy even in some non-urban areas such as Boulder Creek. There is, of course, no guarantee that any particular phone line is adaptable to the faster speeds. But with what we've seen so far, and our own experience with the new modems at home, we're impressed. You can pick one up at Cruzio or a number of other local places.
New customers can simply sign up for the service.
Local guests and your email and IRC chat will add to the fun. The Members Account administration Web page has a new feature. Besides getting your disk usage and changing your email password, you can unlock a stuck FTP session. Your FTP sessions can occasionally get stuck if, for example, your computer crashes while doing a transfer. This is for the same news service that we've had for the last couple of months.