Originally posted by GW:
There isn't cable internet (or tv) available where I live, and DSL will probably be obsolete before it would be available here.
I faced that for about two years. Three summers ago we moved a couple of miles -- which was a couple of miles beyound DSL coverage. Our dialup was absolutley awful.
I was going to go satellite, but I found that my cell phone carrier (it was called Cingluar then, and it is now AT&T) had a alternative. We have good cell coverage where we live, and I was able to buy a card for my laptop which worked quite well. I networked to to my wife's computer. Lots faster than dialup, but slower than DSL. I think it was $59.95 a month.
The nice thing about it was that it worked everwhere we went -- like to relatives that didn't have internet, to the beach, etc.
We finally got DSL about two months ago.
