I feel for ya, I live in the sticks also, and we just recently got high-speed internet, but I still have dial-up. But what suprises me is how much more faster some of your guy's dial up's are yet there slower than mine. I only get 32.8kbps and I have no problem with this site downloading, mabey 10 seconds. But what I do have is for $2.95 a month more is called (Xpress 2.0) it adds excelleration. I jus looked at the speed of it and I guess I actually get 214.7kbps total cost for internet is $12.95 a month. I was thinking of changing to high speed, but I have so many accounts with my e-mail on them that it would be more of a hassle to change everything than to just leave it as is, I can live with dial-up, for now anyway, but I did get Cable TV,,,,,YEAAAAA!