I live out in the country.
I have DirecTV.
Tell me, what is this "cable" you speak of?
It's a wire that gives me 120 channels, 12 HBO's, 8 Sinemaxes, and super-fast always on internet.
They just mentioned Condi Rice, bump for that wonderful lady.
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.