I moved to a rental house on a farm at the end of a long driveway off a country road a couple of miles from a major road. I am trying to figure out my broadband options. The main problem is that I do not need or wish to pay for cable or satellite television. Cable TV may not even be available. Satellite internet is something like $60/month and I would probably have to buy satellite TV service. DSL is right out, from my remote location.

One other option I found is Sugarloafnet, a local wireless internet provider, whose website, http://www.sugarloafnet.com/ , has broken links and no default page. I was advised that they might just be a reseller, and that some companies like that are fly-by-night. I was put off by their prices: $50/month for 128k, $65 for 256k, $80 for 384k. I assume that's kilobits per second. "The Barnesville Network", as they call it, can't be serving more than a few thousand people or a few dozen businesses if it is really local to my area as the name implies. Barnesville is just a crossroads. Mount Sugarloaf is a 1200 foot hill a few miles from Barnesville and my home.

Can anyone suggest another option, other than this apparently rinky-dink company whose service barely qualifies as broadband?

I think my landlord has satellite in his house. Perhaps I could subsidize his broadband if he would set up a wireless router near a window facing my house. He probably wouldn't want to bother with that. Our computers are in the opposite corner of our house, which is pre-fab.