Eventually I paid through the nose for the only option for Internet service here: Hughes Satellite Internet. It worked, kinda. But it also managed to embody the trifecta of Expensive, Slow, and Unreliable.
Expensive because Hughes was the only choice. Slow because of two reasons: (1) speed of light (in geosync orbit, so around a second of latency) and (2) because the one satellite was handling thousands of ground stations. Unreliable because a heavy rain would block the signal.
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