I feel your pain. Before I went to Wild blue Satellite I was on a dial up. I live in the middle of now where and my speeds were next to nothing. I was lucky when I got 28,800. And the problem is not just this site. The whole Internet has turned into a mass marketing machine. All the video adds, and some sites, the adds open first before you can even see the content of the site. Believe me, I feel your pain. But I was reading and they said by 2010 the nation should be wireless. That means the prices on that will come down and then everyone can afford something to surf the Internet. Lets hope so anyway.