Tell me about it! I live in a remote area and can only get dial-up at a reasonable rate (Huges wanted $99 one time set-up fee, $9.99 monthly charge and [here it comes, folks] a $59.99 monthly service charge! That's for the slowest package! It goes up from there!)...so I'm stuck with dial-up until I move and man! you ought see where I live!

However, I play WOW and most of my characters are on a realm that is closed as it is "full" and on the weekends I'm lucky to get on at all! I have to steer clear of heavily populated areas as I keep getting disconnected. In other areas the "lag" is so bad nobody wants the dial-up guy in a group and I can't say that I blame them. You're always several seconds behind the action on the screen.

I've looked at Aion and it is a similar game but stunningly beautiful (read: more band-width!) but with things the way they are, I'll never get to have it. Alas!

Heck! Sometimes it's even a problem to log and blog here at the 'cat! As per open mike, yeah stand alone games are OK...for a while but then you get to missing the human element of unpredictability and social interaction.

You know, my taxes also went into the R&D that has given the US and the world satellite tech. It seems to me that it should be available for all! Instead we have the same old mega corps monopolizing and making obscene profits from it. Thanks a lot US Govt.! Thanks a lot!