If it makes you feel any better I'm on cable modem and this site is taking forever for me to load and I often have to keep hitting reload for it to load. It's something going on with the site.

Can you get Alltel cell service where you are? If so you can get a plan for $30 a month for unlimited data tethering and use it hooked to your computer as a modem. It works as high speed. Not cable fast but pretty quick. I've seen speeds around 700kbps to 1mbps. Usually somewhere in there. It's a lot faster than 56kbps dialup which is often no where near 56k. It's also faster than 512k dsl and works well. Upload speeds aren't bad either. I use it traveling but if I lived where I couldn't get cable or dsl if I could get cell service I'd use that.