Hey DavidR, I was in the same boat. Still am, sot of. I'm too far away to benifit from the full speed. However, I looked at it like this:
On dialup, at first it was $25 for 100hrs, 4 email accounts
"updated" package $25 for unlimited hrs, 2 email accounts
another ips undate $25 for unlimited hrs, 1 email accounts, $4 for additional account
(don't you just love it when they upgrade you for beter service
)
hispeed introduced $30 for unlimited hrs and 3 accounts, plus they gave me a 19" flat screen.
With the dial up, I was also paying $2 for Internet call director.
So for the same (actually, I'm ahead $1
), I can go a bit faster.
dl speed was about 4.2 , did an xp to sp2 on that, phone didn't ring for 2 days
now Download Speed: 1307 kbps (163.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 478 kbps (59.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Not the 1.5 as advertized, but a lot better.
Don't know how well this fuzzy logic fits in your case.