The options, as are listed below are all sub-optimal. It sounds funny to defend Time Warner after all this bullshit, but they have a monopoly. Which means they're the most effective service in our area. Satellite is impractical, and the internet is not as reliable on a day-to-day basis as cable. (Having had satellite at my parents' place, I know how easy it is for a rainy day to ruin your service. Literally: storms can knock the signal right out.)

As far as I know, Fios is not yet available, so there's no high-speed cable service besides Time Warner in our area. I'd also sooner gnaw through the wall and fix the cables myself than return to DSL. We have...history.

Long and short of it: the American system for providing services like this SUCKS BALLS.