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It does.

http://www.odessaoffice.com/sdsl.htm

40 miles point to point.

Also this article by an ISP that is doing it.

This is discussed a lot over on ISP-Lists - you'll probally find this page very helpful. The guy who wrote it is a guru in homebrew type services - dsl and wireless.

OdessaOffice.com
This guy lives in rural washington, and had the same problem. This is his complete step-by-step how to on how he did it, including modem brands & models, problems he had while setting it up, how he overcame obstacles, etc. Very very good read and I would think it'd be your first stop for rolling your own.

DSL in Lincolnshire? You MUST be kidding right.

Don't laugh just yet. The 'Ask Slashdot' question was how to network multiple buildings - not how to get Internet access. DSL is still very much an option for this situation.

Take a look at this. What you do is call the phone company and order a "dry pair" (or "alarm circuit") between the buildings you wish to connect. This should cost about $20/month. Then you get on eBay and find two DSL modems - one for each location. Finally, make the appropriate sacrifice to the networking gods. And tada - you've got cheap point-to-point DSL.

Now I don't think this is what the original poster had in mind, as the VPN suggestion implies an untrusted network (the Internet). But just because you live in the boonies doesn't mean you can't have DSL.

Tons of small ISP's have turned to fixed wireless using DSSS or FHSS 802.11b as a way to route around their local telephone companies and the cable monopolies. Most people will tell you that wireless service is better than DSL and Cable. The only limitations with it really are interference in highly suburban areas and line-of-sight. But even in heavily populated areas FHSS is pretty reliable.

The most popular mailing list for these types of small wireless ISP's is here:
http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-wireless/archi ves/

An organization created by alot of these wireless ISP is here:
http://www.wispa.org/

and you can find wireless ISP's in your area here:
http://www.bbwexchange.com/wisps/ Some of these WISP's have thier systems attached to Grain towers with their equipment covered in bird shit, but they're doing somethings the big boys aren't, like making money.

There's some kind of diary with prices of his service over here, and the quite informative webpage (pictures!) about his wireless offer can be found here.

There's some kind of diary with prices of his service over here, and the quite informative webpage (pictures!) about his wireless offer can be found here.

I beg to differ:

http://www.odessaoffice.com/wireless/mobile.htm

although he was his own ISP so I dont know if that counts :/
Anyway, here's the link
Cookie anyone?

Looks like it was more than a year ago based on the dates and his comment about being Slashdotted.

...of a do-it-yourself DSL hook-up can be found here.

The author apparently owns an ISP in a small town and took the steps he describes there to get high speed service to himself and some of his power-users.

There is another company doing wireless T1 for $250/mo plus $600.00 for the install. They just started doing residential for $49.00/mo for one computer(IP) plus $500 for install. I'm really interested in this option and have been talking to them this week. I was hoping to here some feedback from some users but half the people here are talking about internet on wireless phones. I'd love to have a wireless T1 if ping times where better than a modem for $49/mo. I need to see if I can get them to pull the firewall out of the setup costs because I don't need it anyway.