MvLe> Is that the best plan you can get ?

 MvLe> $95 USD ... I pay $24 USD.

 MvLe> I thought if you were in the US you'd be getting 24 - 30 mbits for
 MvLe> peanuts. I must have it all wrong about the priority governments
 MvLe> place on broadband there in the states.

errrmmm... ya need to look at those origin lines a bit closer... russell is
in zone 5 which is africa... more specifically, he is in Free State, South
Africa (as his origin line states) ;)

9600baud radio modem connections carrying TCPIP (instead of UUCP or even
FIDO) are common methods of networking and communications over there...
TCPIP has a huge overhead when compared to UUCP and FIDO... i can't even
imagine working with it over a 9600baud radio link!

)\/(ark