Use "plain dial-up" or shotgun (dual) modems (Score 1)

Suprisingly using dial-up for web browsing and for web interface email was acceptable. Granted this was in New York City.... But the phone line quality was poor, only receiving about 35k Lesson: get the best quality inside wiring you can (a cat3 cable from the phone box (NID) wired to a dedicated jack) and you may just get acceptable dialup. Modem shotgunning - maybe they can get 2 modems and connect to their ISP to get double the speed: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,1406254;root=dialup;mode=flat Some ISP's used to off it - i.e. Earthlink (no endorsement intended) and may still do so