I pay more than that and , like I said, I'm on a tiny Social Security income for now. No one ever said that bit torrent can't work with dial-up. I knew it would take time, but the never-ending dis-connects makes it far longer than it ought to be, even with dial-up.
I would have gone for Yahoo! SBC high-speed deal, but it's for credit card holders only.
At any rate, even though I'm already living on macaroni'n'cheese in order to see the Stones; I am going to re-configure my budget so I can get in on Comcast's high speed offer unless someone knows of a reliable cheaper one that's not credit card only.

Also, many people have told me that dial-up itself may not have been the problem so much as conflict between Netscape's software and the client's.
M.