What is the best way to get Internet without a home phone or cable?

I switched from Cox Cable with whom I also had internet with and now have Direct TV. Direct TV only offers Internet if you have a home phone, which I do not. What is the cheapest way to get internet without adding a home phone?What is the best way to get Internet without a home phone or cable?
For Internet, You basically have 4 main choices.



1. Cable Internet through your cable TV company. You can get the Internet without the TV packages, but you will be charged more than the promo prices you see on TV.



2. DSL through you telephone line (if it's available in your area). Usually you have to have local service, but you can get service called "dry loop". Just DSL by itself. Again, the DSL price will be higher than you see on TV. They want you to take a bundle of services, so "dry loop" is not advertised.



3. Dial-up (Slow! Yuck! 'nuff said)



4. Satellite Internet. Not as slow as Dial-up, but you don't need to have a telephone or cable line coming into your house. Most of the people who get Satellite Internet live in remote places without good telephone or Cable TV services. (Or they are on house boats) Two things to keep in mind--- you cannot use VoIP, like Vonage and Satellite may be a very expensive start up cost.



I am Familiar with DIRECTV- they parner with local phone companies like Verizon, AT%26amp;T to give customers Internet. They also sell Satellite Internet called Wild Blue.



The only other alternative is to use free Internet at Internet cafes and the public library. I hope I've helped.What is the best way to get Internet without a home phone or cable?
If you have a laptop with a wireless adapter you could a broadband card from one of the cell companies, like Verizon, Sprint.What is the best way to get Internet without a home phone or cable?
tigersue pretty much mentioned everything, but I want to add a few points as I've dealt with all of these.



Satellite internet should be considered a LAST resort, I actually prefer dial-up to satellite internet. The problem being with satellite is you are extremely limited in it's uses. It's got very high latency, which makes using things like an xbox or online game playing almost impossible. You have ridiculously low bandwidth caps as well (most providers cap you at about 260 megs over 4 hours, which means you can't stream tv over the internet or stream netflix movies, that sort of thing without going over it completely), and most providers don't tell you when you've gone over, they just throttle your speed back to about 3.5 k a second, which is basic dial up speed, except your paying between 60 - 80 bucks a month for it. Also, if you exceed that limit, some providers throttle you at low speeds for the rest of the billing cycle. It's really expensive, and really awful.



Those wi-fi cards you can get from sprint/cricket and assorted companies also come with bandwidth caps, usually around 5 gigs. This too is very, very limited. It's faster then Sat. but also very expensive, if you go over your 5 gigs (which really is not much, even doing legal things on the internet and not dl movies and music, you'll go over this pretty quick) they charge you per MEG usually, around a quarter a meg which can add up very quick, but varies from plan to plan and provider. This is usually used to do stuff really quick, such as check email when your away from the office and such, grab small files that sort of thing. Not really recommended as your primary internet connection.



For the cost, DSL is pretty good and usually much cheaper then your typical cable connection, it's slower then cable, but depending on how much you use the internet that may not be a big deal for you.



Cable is pretty much the way to go, it's expensive, but you'll have a good and fast connection, and at least at the moment, most providers don't have any sort of cap on data transfers (some com-cast providers do however, so i'd avoid them, Time Warner is also experimenting with the idea). If cost isn't an issue, and you don't want a phone, I'd go with cable. Cox Cable however has no problem turning you in for dl copyrighted material, so if that's an issue I'd avoid them as well.



Hope that helps, let me stress this again, AVOID SATELLITE INTERNET AT ALL COST.