Broadband world

Was just trying to get my mother-in-law's laptop to crawl the web a trifle less slowly using her 56k USB modem (they're snowbirds). Amazing how all those modern apps which are always "helpfully" checking for updates and background security downloads can eat into bandwidth these days. Set her up with Opera, which at least has a no-graphics mode. Need to look into a GUI lynx, if that makes any sense...