Networking trouble

[Dr. Boogie]

The other day, my DSL connection quit working mysteriously. A call to Verizon revealed that they were experiencing outages in my area code, and that the problem would be fixed shortly. It wasn't.

I've got two Win98 computers and my own XP PC hooked up to a single hub, and now only one of the computers (one that isn't mine) has a DSL connection. Several long, drawn-out conversations with the finest tech support people that Verizon's India branch could offer revealed that apparently, Verizon has stopped supporting hubs. One of said techies even tried to convince me that there never was any support of hubs, and I'm not the smartest man in the world, but I assume that the device that takes the single cable from my DSL modem and splits it into three is a hub.

In short, is there anything I can do, or do I just have to start looking for a new DSL provider?