I have wondered this question as well Moose............good job..

I live in the country as well....no option for wireless or cable ....
just dial-up and sat.

But when I am here in Branson during the week I have wifi....and I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!

Just not being tied to the wall and the phone jack is so pleasing to me....not to mention the speed thing.....
I can go outside, sit at the picnic table, smoke, drink coffee, watch the birds, smell the fresh cut grass, listen to the locust, and............surf the web and type on NT all at the same time..............

I can do that at home too........a friend had gotten me the longest dang phone cord you ever did see.................and I hook up the laptop and drag it all out on the porch at home.....lol...its quite funnay really...but I can still be outdoors.....


But here.........so sweet to have "no strings" attached.............

I wonder about the router boxes............how do they work in your home with dial up?
and what the heck is eithernet? (or how ever ya spell it??)