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Dealing With Dialup
An anonymous reader writes "It looks like my parents may end up stuck having to use dialup to access the Internet from their cottage inside the Cape Cod National Seashore. Neither Comcast nor Verizon want to bother upgrading the hardware required to get them faster service. They could put a satellite dish on their roof, but it's a 300-year-old house and they feel a dish would be as prohibitively ugly as running dedicated lines would be prohibitively expensive. I've suggested they get familiar with a text-only email client; I also suggested they talk with their senators and local political reps. , Are there other ways they can increase the functionality despite the pitiful bandwidth? Any other good ideas? Any success stories you can share where people have finally got the bandwidth they crave?"
Wasn't the so-called "Universal Access Fee" or whatever the hell it's called, supposed to address this issue? Wasn't this fee supposed to make Internet access "universally" available for *everyone*?
Oh, that's right, collection of taxes (yes I know that these were "fees", but a tax by any other name...) is the business of the government and not of us "little people", how rude of me to question the government... please don't execute me.
The problem with socialism is that they always run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher