Ah man TonyR, I feel for you. If your internet is slow because you live in a rural area and the telephone company doesn't want to upgrade anything, you might be able to get fixed wireless service which can be leaps and bounds faster. Try your zip code here:
Find Internet Providers in Your Area | BroadbandNow.com Of course fixed wireless requires line of sight to one of the ISP's towers, so it usually doesn't work in wooded areas or if you live on the wrong side of a hill.
Thanks, man but I put in my zip and got pretty much what I expected: CenturyLink (which is what I have since '09), HughesNet (satellite, had it '04 to '06, swore "never again") and ViaSat (also satellite, the old Excede/WildBlue which I had '06 to '09), so it's 'no joy'.
If you really want to lift your spirits (and you do so by observing the plight of others) and if you care to, put in my zip of 35572 and read how dismal Internet access is in my town and the entire county....you'd think we just entered the 20th century about the time most of the other 49 states moved into the 21st. !
AT&T hot spot from cell LTE are not so bad, 20M down on a good day, but night and weekends or bad weather it'll drop below 2.0M....I'm not joking. And of course, there's those pesky data caps if you want to stream YouTube or amazon prime.
Well, gotta run....time to finish churning some butter, then build a fire and heat some water so I can take a hot bath....it's been a long day and these homemade possum skin moccasins are making my feet hurt and are starting to smell just a tad....