MOTM

I too live in the sticks.  We're lucky if we can get 24K dial up 
here, and the connection drops periodically.
We have tried satellite and sometimes it works well, other times it 
works not at all.  It is also expensive.
We will never have cable as the house is 1/2 mile from the road, 
which doesn't have cable anyway.
DSL is out as we're too far away.
I even looked at getting a T1.  $1000 per month!
So we're back to dial-up.
I do have broadband at work though.  I just upgraded ProTools and 
all my plug-ins.  All the plug-in manuals were pdfs. Many had to be 
downloaded.  When I printed it all out I ended up with a stack of 
papers 12" high.  This is getting ridiculous.  Am I supposed to go 
on line and find a pdf and open it in the middle of a session with a 
client looking over my shoulder?
I'm looking forward to getting the CDRom, but I'll download at work 
if I have to.
BTW, my brother who lives in a small town in Oregon pays $29.95 a 
month for fiber!!!  Bnadwidth is over 20M.
Life ain't fair!

Have you considered ISDN?  It is telephone line based and available 
where DSL is not.  I found this company by a Google search:

*http://access.aplus.net/isdn.html

-Richard Brewster
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paulhaneberg wrote:

>I too live in the sticks.  We're lucky if we can get 24K dial up 
>here, and the connection drops periodically.
>We have tried satellite and sometimes it works well, other times it 
>works not at all.  It is also expensive.
>We will never have cable as the house is 1/2 mile from the road, 
>which doesn't have cable anyway.
>DSL is out as we're too far away.
>I even looked at getting a T1.  $1000 per month!
>So we're back to dial-up.
>I do have broadband at work though.  I just upgraded ProTools and 
>all my plug-ins.  All the plug-in manuals were pdfs. Many had to be 
>downloaded.  When I printed it all out I ended up with a stack of 
>papers 12" high.  This is getting ridiculous.  Am I supposed to go 
>on line and find a pdf and open it in the middle of a session with a 
>client looking over my shoulder?
>I'm looking forward to getting the CDRom, but I'll download at work 
>if I have to.
>BTW, my brother who lives in a small town in Oregon pays $29.95 a 
>month for fiber!!!  Bnadwidth is over 20M.
>Life ain't fair!
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