Same problem here! I hate dialup, but it's what we have and it's a lot better now than when I first got it at 18k. 56k is blazing speed even if it only comes in at around 50.2k!

It's like that old commercial when the kid was downloading a file, he went out and played basketball, ate lunch, and kept yelling to his mother "IS IT DONE YET??"

There's no watching TV, YouTube, listening to internet radio stations, watching funny clips,etc. etc. etc. It even takes a long time to open pages here when they are graphic intense or people have glittergraphics running on their posts. Birthday threads will kill my machine, lock it up and leave me wondering what stopped me this time. That's why I don't get to post on a lot of birthday threads, I have to catch them at the very start or I cannot get them open to post because of all the pretty birthday greeting graphics!

Someday we in the woods will be up to speed with some sort of high speed internet, but of course it will have moved to a new faster speed sort of transmission and we will be left behind again...