I've all ready decided that the x box is the way to go for me, especially after seeing the games in person. My question is I know that the X box will support broadband. I was wondering if you get the Xbox and broadband for it. Can you use that same service for your computer, and if you have DSL for your PC can you use that for Xbox??

Same service. Just plug your cable modem into the XBox. Or you can use a router of course.

is it cable or also DSL? I'm getting DSL in a month or so and want to make sure that will do the trick. I'm planning on using earthlink here in socal is that the best choice price, performane??

Earthlink has a good rep. A NIC comes with the X-Box, and I'm not sure how that's different from a cable modem. DSL will work fine, and I'm pretty it shouldn't be a problem with cable.

it doesn't matter if you have cable or DSL... they both use cat 5 cable.

There's no network up for online play on any system yet, though. My personal suspicion is that online play won't take off until the next generation of consoles, a few years down the road, when more people have broadband.

I agree. It'll certainly be a hot topic next summer when the online networks for both GC and XBOX are fully operational, but it won't be popular or widely used until DSL service providers lower their prices.