You have DSL?! Then you aren’t that rural, my FRiend. : )
We’ll be able to bump the dial-up maybe around 2024 where I’m at.
Those antenna for cell phones DO work, but they are a bundle, start at around 300+ bucks, depending on what kind of cell service you have. My neighbor has one and is tickled to death that he can access hi speed net now via the cell phone. Most Radio Shacks carry stuff like that. I think that’s where he got his. They are all over the innernettubes, too.
If you’re griping about 50 bucks for pokey DSL, then skip satellite internet, it ain’t worth the bucks.
There’s a village about 1.5 miles as the crow flies. That’s where the rural telephone company is with maybe 2000 customers. The had DSL for a year without telling me. Last I heard, 3 of us pay for their fastest DSL. Yeah, it’s not Wagonwheel Montana, 60 miles from Riley. Wagonwheel has 1 blinker and Riley had 2 blinkers, this from memory 20 years ago.