It's 2015. Your mom could probably get DSL for the same price that she's paying for Earthlink.

She's too far from the phone office for DSL, and she is completely convinced that were she to get comcast cable, no one would ever be able to email her, ever again.

Oddly she is completely cool with using webmail from cybercafes - she travels quite a lot.

Mom isn't stupid, she only acts that way.

You are making up fake excuses now. You've downloaded about as much text from HN just to reply to the threads here than it would have taken to read the original article.

The original document is 185512 bytes. The download can be read locally in 'links' with no additional network connections. At 28.8Kpbs that's a bit over a minute. Even with a noisy connection, that's well under the 21 minute gap pointed out elsewhere between your posts.

There is no reason to drag your mother's beliefs into this. Simply stop at "I don't have good internet access." All else is needlessly placing the blame or shifting the focus elsewhere ... that being your willingness to completely ignore the topic and instead name-drop your own history, connections to authority, and personal beliefs - even when they have no basis in fact.