Rod, check out Inreach Internet. They should be available down in your neck of the woods. When I lived in CA, I helped the guy that owns it start it up. We went from running it out of his apartment, to them being one of the biggest providers in CA.
I'm on a 1.5M DSL connection. I'm greedy, I want MORE POWER *grunt grunt grunt*
Cable is nice until your neighbors hook up to it, then the speed is cut in half, and so on and so on. Each block shares the node. But it's better than a dialup, so there ya go