I have reliable internet again, yay!
My tiny little phone company merged with AT&T so now I'm getting DSL which is fantastic because up until very recently, the only internet service we could get out here has been either dial-up, super slow satellite or a really awful wireless service (sometimes it works okay, other times it's too slow to load a single webpage. And the outages... hours long outages, multiple times a day. Agh!) So I'm super super happy right now ^-^