I was surprised that UPS will now do overnight delivery of Amazon orders to my mom&#x27;s house in rural Oklahoma (she&#x27;s at least a mile from her nearest neighbor), even though the truck originates from Lawton, OK - 50 miles away according to Google Maps.<p>Her &quot;broadband&quot; connection is a 2-6&#x2F;2Mbps Wimax connection via an antenna on the roof to the nearest town a few miles away.  It&#x27;s still weird being able to sit out &quot;in the middle of nowhere&quot;, talking to friends online, and order stuff I need and still have it show up the next day.  Was a lifesaver when I stayed there for two weeks back in March after she had a hospital stay, and I needed a proper office chair and a folding table to act as a desk rather than using her kitchen table.<p>Was still able to work remotely just fine (most of my stuff was SSH to remote servers, and a web browser).<p>More surprising is that when I did the same thing earlier this month to help her after knee replacement surgery, that I could get T-Mobile LTE inside her house - back in March, I&#x27;d only been able to get it while sitting on the front porch.<p>Quite a change from a few years ago when all she could get was 21.6Kbps dialup, and I had to send her a literal pile of USR Courier modems with instructions &quot;if you have a lightning storm and the modem won&#x27;t work the next day, throw that one in the trash and plug in another from the stack.&quot;