Hah! I remember those old cradle modems... at the risk of "dating" myself, I remember dialing up the University of Texas student mainframe from my college apartment on one of those... in 1982.

We live in one of those areas that has sketchy service, so SkyLink sounded interesting... but it's less service for more money, at this point.

I know what you mean about bandwidth... our 31-year old son lives with us during his annual "winter furlough" from his Parks and Rec job and he's playing Assassin's Creed pretty much 24/7... last year we got a serious extra bill a couple months, for having used 1.8 Terabytes of bandwidth while he was here...