Nailed-up connections (was Re: RCN)

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Rich Braun wrote:

> So, if "someone out in the rest of the world" wants to reach your
> machine, you either have to pay the fee for a static IP (something
> which costs about $50/month no matter where you turn, because address
> space is a limited and scarce resource--the price won't ever go down),

I did a bit better than that; my local eletric company offers 56K dialup
for $13/mo plus an extra $5/mo for a static IP address. They only have a
local dialup number, so it's only cost-effective if you're dialing in
locally; as a consequence, I'm seeing much better bandwidth than I did
when I used the bigger ISPs. 

If your local utilities are getting into the ISP business, they may be
worth trying.

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