Nope, its either cloudy/foggy/windy, plus the building codes state that anything to be put on the outside of the house must be in the back attached to the house out of view from the street and the north is up in front. Plus they do use a phone for uploads.
Err...you guys...he hasn't said anything yet about $3000...it's just in his post title...which doesn't make sense. But w/e. For antivirus software...i presume stuff that removes spyware, not prevents it? Then use mircrosoft's anti-spyware. It actually works pretty good even though it's in beta and its from microsoft.
Speakers...as long as you don't care about sound quality, buy the cheapest speakers you can buy.
For the graphics card...that thing marked 'video card' can also be called a graphics card. Unless you mean a video capture card.
If you're not overclocking, stock cooling will be fine.
Sry...i can't help you w/ the 56 k modem.