Yesterday, I found myself talking to my father about his plans to move to Vermont in a year or so. One of the issues brought up with this was keeping some sort of broadband service should we actually go through with this. He said, at worst, we'd have a satellite connection, to which I replied the obvious caveats of expense and lack of half-decent up-speed...

...anyway, I don't quite remember how, but somehow, we eventually worked our way into talking about how, by his account, he knew of a company in the early 90s which would actually "hardwire" your network to the Internet, though he didn't quite understand how this worked. I went on to explain what they offered was probably a backbone connection, and then went on to touch on everything WAN IPs to the phone network as he nodded politely.

"I still don't get it."

Well, now, does anyone have an easy way I could explain this to a balding man in his late forties with an intermediate knowladge of computers in general and the world wide web? None of my explanations seem to have gottne through to him, and I'm at a loss to make it any clearer... what's worse is by now, he probably doesn't care