I *am* in Nowhereton-cum-Shitesham in rural Dorsetshire (well, Ringstead, and soon to be in Chaldon Herring), and it doesn't make the pain of dialup any easier to bear. And due to complicated Airport reasons the dialup is by AOL. This is about a year after BT announced "100% broadband coverage in Dorset", which of course translates as every exchange being enabled - not 100% availability to every customer. Having moved from the luxury of a 2Mb connection in Market-Town-Hellhole-Forum 20 miles away I am now feeling *excluded*. No Skype, no meaningful use of Listen Again, no iChat/iSight use. At least I'm saving money on impulse iTunes purchases. I have to pay a fiver for an hours wireless browsing at Starbucks in Bournemouth just to remember what it was like. It brings a tear to my eye :-(