The last survey I saw said that the US had a cable/dsl availability of about 80%, but I'm still more inclinded to believe that it's more along 66% still, since providers aren't rushing to bring out any good and affordable broadband connections out to rural areas.
Wireless deals can charge you bigtime by the bandwidth, so they're not much good.
Satellite internet can't play games online (horrible latency), cannot perform direct connections, and can only download so much before being throttled to dial-up speeds also.
We pay $70 a month for satellite to avoid 28.8 dial-up (our phone lines can't even do near 56k with a great modem, a cheap modem gets around 19.2 connection or less). I love my home, but god the internet sucks. I'll be suprised if we get a good broadband by 2020, and I'm VERY serious when I say that. Living on the county line in a rural area doesn't help I'll admit.
Nobody is crazy enough to accuse me of being sane.
