Surviving the Internet On Low Speed DSL

toygeek writes "Earlier this year my family and I moved out into the woods, where high speed is simply not available. We traded in high speed for high latency, clean air and peace and quiet. We've made it work, and can even watch Netflix and Hulu while I'm off in another room working from home full time. Read along as I share some tips about how we've made it work, and the compromises we've had to make." It can be done; low-end DSL from AT&T is also what I somehow muddled through with for most of the last 18 months; though the connection often failed and the followup support was terrible, it worked well enough most of the time, and sure beat a 56K modem.

moving to the woods and then worrying about slow

[ajdub]

internet is "doing it wrong."

Re:You poor baby

[robot256]

The article is pretty lame, and appears to merely be ad click-bait.

Well, he does work from home. Be a sucker and click on a link so he can have a cup of coffee.

Trials and tribulations of the first world!

[Anonymous Coward]

Man has first-world problem and somehow manages to survive. Film at 11!

Re:You poor baby

[AK Marc]

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Is that why my cat hates the vacuum?

Re:Trials and tribulations of the first world!

[JackieBrown]

Cool - Slashdot has broken through to the third world market and they are posting!

We have our films at 10 in the first world :)

Re:Amazon Prime ships faster than that

[Jeremy Erwin]

Station Wagon full of tapes, eh?

Re:You poor baby

[Jeff Flanagan]

Maybe you should smarten up and not stare at the progress bar. There's this new thing called Windows that allows you to use other applications while Steam downloads. There's another thing called "life," which has something to do with being away from the PC, but I'm not really qualified to speak on that topic.