The poor must suffer

I managed to connect to MSN Messenger on my laptop on the train home today whoppee!  It was through my mobile phone on Bluetooth and wap so it was horrendously slow.  It's a "poor man's" 3G connection I guess, although the 10 second delay in sending and receiving messages can make things slower.  Don't even think about file transfers!  Broadband is about 576k/s, I'm talking about 9k/s here!  I suppose I could use GPRS which is reasonably fast, only problem being it charged per MB.  So each word would cost about 0.5pence.  This blog would cost almost 50pence.  Ouch!