What do you do when your internet is out?

Our internet is always gone, we have to tether everything. There is no DSL even though there are 2 central offices at the end of our street, the loop goes the other way. They just thought they would rub it in my nose and put the things on our street 1/3 mile away and still no cable. Even though there are like 50 house's down here they just past us by.