I was once as you were my son. Doomed to perpetual slow dialup connections because of the vast distances between my domicile and civilization.
Then lo, one day "cable" came to my road. But then I gnashed my teeth and groaned when I found that "cable" was not to be associated with the magical "modem".
Woe was me. Fully a year passed. A pronouncement was made:
Let there be CABLE MODEM. And it was very good.
I know the feeling. I wouldn't have it any other way, though.