DsL can be pretty crappy too unless you buy into the higher speeds. When we were out in the boondocks and they finally had DSL available we lucked out because we paid for the basic slow speed but they hadn't programmed the new switches properly yet so for about a year we got 1.5M instead of 256K. Once they throttled us back to 256 it seemed almost like dial-up again.

Now in the city we don't have to pay for internet. There are a lot of people with wifi and our neighbors gave us their permission to use their links and we're connecting pretty fast again. Some around here are unsecured and we could use them on the sly but I'd much rather be honest about it and have permission from the guys paying for it.

Hang in there with your dial-up Quasi. Eventually you'll probably have other options. BTW, people I know are not that crazy about cable internet either and every cable company eats shit as far as I have seen. Others who have satellite don't like it either. Hold out for DSL. It seems more stable and consistent, again depending on the provider. Some suck as bad as everything else.