When i read the statement you refer to, I'm pretty darn sure that edvniow meant the money would go to keeping up car maintenence or maybe in addition to current car payments, etc. It isn't like once you buy (or lease) a car you never have to put another dollar into it.
As for broadband connections, out here your pretty much only option is cable. DSL took us 1 year - a WHOLE YEAR just to get the connection to work! And when it all came to fruition, it was half as fast as cable. They're both around $40 a month here. I live in a town that has so few people we aren't allowed to have our own post office!. We're forced to share a post office with a neighboring town! Can you imagine the shame? I think we have like 2,000 people or something. And we aren't small, it's pretty large. This is upstate new york, if u wonder. But we can get both DSL and Cable - though i have to admit some streets don't have cable lines going down them, but they are getting them now. A friend of mine 2 miles away, still within the limits, has been living off a 56K modem. But the phone lines are so old and terrible, the phone company themselves say the bandwidth is roughly equivalent to a 28.8 modem. However, cable lines just put up after years of begging.
I do not want to sound like i take this all for granted - I am really grateful to be able to afford both a macintosh computer and a high speed cable connection. I don't really need the speed for a business reason, since my "software company" is so small and unimportant nobody would notice if the web page disappeared (actually this is false. When i forgot to renew the domain name, a porn site bought it and i received one or two emails about it. www.scotiasoft.net is now home to mature black women)
My 2 cents
