Life out in the boonies is great. No neighbors, big yard, plus, you can do whatever the heck you want and nobody knows or cares. But there are a few downsides as well.
One of the worst, is the internet. You can either get satellite internet, or get some weird wireless stuff, that has the download speed of dial up, that even sometimes fails.
We are using a wireless internet provider called I2k.
I2k is better than dial up, but it still never gives us what we pay for, because somewhere in the fine print of our contract, it says that our internet may not always be what we are paying for or something along those lines... We have never gotten what we pay for, which is 1 MB/s
Instead, we get something along the lines of 100 KB. That's on a good day... at 3 am.
On a bad day, we have gotten as worse as 100 bytes per second. on average, we get about 30KB.
Lets think about this. 1 MB is made of 1000 KB, 1 KB is made of 1000 Bytes.
When we get to those low points, I imagine the i2k building housing the internet generator with all of its huge switches that take 3 men to turn on and off gets overloaded, and the generator spits out sparks and flames, setting the building on fire.
