Rural internet options

There’s a possibility that I’m going to be spending some time in a rural area with no DSL or cable over the next few months and I need high speed internet access to work on kottke.org while I’m there. I’ve investigated various options, but there are so many pros, cons, and unknown factors to weigh that it’s hard make a choice. Here’s the list:

• Dialup - Cheap, but way too slow. Not really an option.
• Two-way satellite internet - I’ve heard bad things about this, but it’s been available for awhile now so I’d guess it’s not completely useless. The latency sucks, but there’s no way to get around it and I’m not a gamer so how bad can it be? Do I go with Direcway or Starband or GroundControl or are there other companies? I’ve heard stories that some services throttle bandwidth or charge per GB. Also kind of expensive. Gotta sign year+-long contracts. Does it work in bad weather?
• Phone company says that we’re out of range for DSL, but get the DSL modem anyway and see if it works. As suggested here. Anyone done this?
• Get the phone company to drop a DSL-ready line from the trunk to the house. This is probably expensive (how much?) and would take time to convince the phone company to do.
• T1 line. Expensive. $600/mo? Probably more.
• Wifi antenna pointed towards a wireless access point somewhere in DSL land. Downsides: don’t know anyone in surrounding DSL land, possible line-of-sight issues.
• Run cable coax from nearest cable subscriber’s house several miles away. Absurd. Included only for the sake of completeness.

Does anyone have any personal experience with any of this? Any recommendations or helpful pointers? Satellite internet seems like the best option, but looking around at the available services, it seems expensive and just generally like the service they offer is kind of “my way or the highway” and generally makes me uneasy and unclean. Many thanks in advance for anything you can offer.