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

It's a very old house

[dronkert]

Really, 300-yr old? From 1708 or thereabouts? In Cape Cod? I think not.

Re:pda?

[aqk]

First of all: your "Edge" references leave me blank.
Never heard of it. Is this some Amurican service?
"All you can eat"? "Treo"?
Sorry- the WHOLE world reads /.
And we DO NOT revolve around the stars n stripes anymore. (figured that out yet?)

Anyhow - I bet these ol' geezers in the 300 yr-old house are spinning in their looms.
Let 'em buy a $29 DVD player and be done with it.
If they are sooo "into" a 300-year-old farmhouse, they shouldn't be vandalizing it with electric powerlines and such!
Better to stick to candles (Only Tallow! NO kerosene!)

Jeeez. What a fukin' joke And- I BET! they are younger than I am!