That blows! Not being in the sticks, that's cool. It is really hard to do anything on dial up, even surfing on it would take it's toll on me!
I used to start a download before I went to sleep and shut the monitor off. God, that was so long ago it seems. But, I still remember what it was like. People forget that not everyone has fast Internet, especially web developers.
My issue over here (like it's a problem or something) is my upload speed. It's 7 mbps down, which is damn fast, but up is 512K. I guess the "Business" package is better. They restrict it so I don't make a full blown server out of my computer i guess.