Comment by Steve_Baker

I live in a smallish city in Indiana, pay $56 a month for < 5Mb cable and it's often down for hours at a time, and from my own experience is better than the alternative DSL in available in the area. The reliability has improved over time, in the past we've had occasions where it would indeed be down for days at a time. Wireless/Cable => apple/oranges maybe, but doesn't sound vastly different from North Africa from where I'm standing.