HereForTheBeer: It presents challenges, but they can be worked around. For instance, if we MUST get an important download then we can go into town (a few miles) and leech of family members' connections. Otherwise I wait until my next business trip, and take care of this at the hotel.
The biggest actual problem is when we're both trying to use the connection at the same time. Other than that, we're mostly just missing out on streaming video. Not a huge loss. It's frustrating going from 10Mb that we had in town to less than 1 Mb out here, but as long as it's fast enough to do Remote Desktop stuff I need for work, then we'll get by.
That works. I was mainly interested in games at the time, so I would get those from friends who lived next town or elsewhere. As I said, 360p was okay...only downloading installers for MMOs was a pain. While their size was still fine in 2006 (would take 12 hours on average), five years later, it would pretty much take double the time.
I'm surprised they allow you to work with that connection. Where my sister is, to qualify for remote work, you have to have at least X speed (like 16Mbps) when it comes to bandwidth.
The advantage with such low speeds is that you will immediately know if something happens in the background. For instance, when I tried out DotA 2 back when it got released and had to install that shitty Steam client, I immediately noticed that it started downloading something in the background, despite me having any such things disabled. Obviously, I got rid of the client pretty quickly.
