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?"

Comments

Re:Parabolic / Directional Antenna

[Skal Tura]

Big in terms of WiFi antennaes, not big in terms of a regular satellite dish.

Maybe 50cm width? That ain't very big, especially if it's hooked in a tree, under the leaves you won't see it, and the signal goes very well through leaves :)

Usual WiFi antenna is like 5mm radius and 15cm long. compared to that 138x138mm is absolutely huge.

Re:Get a USB Modem

[cibyr]

Speed isn't super fast, about 750MBS, but it does the job. I have mod points, but there's no "-1, Wrong" option...

Feel free to mod me redundant though, thank $DEITY we have an option for that!