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>If all you have is "wireless sort-of-broadband" your ISP might impose usage restrictions, either for your account specifically if you exceed daily service limits, or maybe globally if what you're doing looks like a bandwidth hog (e.g. torrents). Traffic shaping at its finest. OTOH, it may be the only way your ISP can survive if they don't have a fat pipe.

They do not restrict us here (our ISP is small enough that I know everyone in their company). My home office is one of 4 count-em 4 wireless customers in our town. The speed is simply a limit of the technology (it is 802.11 based).

All I can say is it is better than dial-up. Up until we discovered the wireless link being relayed through our town (the ISP didn't think anyone in this hole would want broadband), dial-up was all there was, and even that was crappy by dial-up standards.

Welcome to the middle-of-nowhere, Kansas.