Yes, we had a few dialup customers at the last ISP I worked for that used DirecTV for access.
You can download with great speed with a satellite setup, but you still have to be dialed into an ISP somewhere for uploads. I fail to see the benefit of having cable download speeds and 56k upload speeds. Not really worth it.
ISDN isn't a bad deal if you can get someone to flat rate your connection fees. Since even ISDN is "new" in some areas and to some people, most ISP's charge outrageous prices for it (we did), if not charging by the hour or by the minute for connection time per month.
If you were lucky enough to find an ISP in your area that would support a multilink, that would be your best bet in my book. Call around and see what you can turn up there. If you're not familiar with it the way it works is you basically use two phone lines and two modems to connect to the same account with your ISP. Windows then "shotguns" the two lines together to double your bandwidth.
Xayd
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