We recently moved in to a new house.  This house has never had a connection from anyone and to bring the connection from our local box requires boring under a neighbors driveway.  We live in Indiana where the current high is 11 degrees and we're told they might be able to do this, or might have to wait until April when it's warmer.

We're looking for other options for internet.  For a couple months we can live with slower internet (no streaming, etc), but I do use it for "on-call" at work to review records over a VPN connection.  So it is important for us to have internet.  Does anyone have any thoughts or options?

We have looked in to satellite, but all the options we've found require a 2 year contract.  We've had satellite TV and don't feel we're going to love satellite internet in the long run.  We could live with this for 2-3 months as said, but don't want to got to a 2 year plan.  

AT&T or similar mobile hotspots are another thought we've had, but paying per data can get pretty expensive and we don't know what speeds to expect.  On our phones we're usually getting in the ball park of 1-2 bars of LTE reception or 3 bars of 4G (so not amazing, but not awesome).

Have any of you all experienced anything or do you have any thoughts and suggestions.  

Sounds to me like the mobile AT&T hotspot is the preferred route for the short term.  You already have the service for your phones, and could add the hotspot capability.  AT&T does have several data plans to chose from, but they will definitely try to lock you in for 2 years on whatever plan you chose.  Work with them to see what they can do to help you out for 4 months or so.