Tried everything I can think of -- can't connect to Internet

Please excuse me -- I should have posted this here, instead of another discussion. No one has even attempted a reply; I hope I can get some advise here. Thanks for ANY advice.
I'm able to get onto the Internet by piggybacking on a nearby open LAN.( I am not a new user, but I'm not a computer scientist.)
This is a desperation act because I can no longer connect to the Internet via Earthlink, my ISP. I have checked every aspect, physical connections to switching from my G5 to my iBook and back again to configure my Airport Extreme base station. I have even switched AEs. I have changed my own network stats. I have replaced the phone wire. I have changed routers. I have even changed modems, but I was unable to program it, thanks to missing instructions mostly meant for Windows users anyway.
I am using a Broadmax DSL modem from Earthlink, and have spent close to two hours on the phone with 3 techies. They really tried to help.
When I mentioned my phone line was from Verizon I heard ununderstandable muttering. The paranoid thought came to me: Was Verizon sabotaging Earthlink to get its customers to switch? How's that for paranoia? I even called Verizon to switch to them, but they are total incompetents -- the techies are good, if you get a good one, but the rest of the outfit haven't yet figured out what to do with two tin cans and a length of string.
The Earthlink techies and I finally agreed it might be a bad modem and another is on the way to me.
I am not confident.
My first and original modem, the Broadmax, could always be fixed by going through the unplugging it for a few seconds or hours, and then I'd have no problems for many months, until I went away and unplugged it. Getting back on the Internet was a nightmare.
The phone line, DSL, is OK. I can make voice calls over it, but the DSL just isn't there.
I may have programmed the Airport express bae staion incorrectly, except that the Internet DSL modem connection quit literally all by itself. After months of working, it just "quit." The modem async PPPoe light blinks signalling no sync. (I don't use PPPoe and it's not checked on my Network pane.)
Having tracked all, and I mean ALL, the usual suspects, I am on the point of hiring an Apple guy to come in and help me. But I would appreciate any advice from someone knowledgeable about this situation.

Yes, I have MAC filtering on. I had it off until a few hours ago. Neither seems to make a difference. Thanks for the suggestion, though. I also had made everything simpler, turning off WEP. Turned it back on. Neither made a difference. The only things I can now consider, it seems, are a bad modem or wrong AE programming.

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