Good story, thanks for sharing Ned. What's funny is that I know where this took place because I grew up in a neighboring town. I recognized it by the wind turb

Good story, thanks for sharing Ned. What's funny is that I know where this took place because I grew up in a neighboring town. I recognized it by the wind turbines and mountain. My parents still live there and you may have worked with my dad at DEC. We had many of the same problems. Their phone lines run underground and still have terrible noise when it rains. The fastest dialup speeds we could get were in the low 20kbit range. They're too far out to get DSL. Cable was available elsewhere in town but not on their road because the power lines came in from the neighboring town. Eventually enough people built houses on their road to put in poles, cable, and even some pavement. They didn't have to suffer through the issues you had.