# What are you guys paying for your ISP's?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-guys-paying-for-your-isps/136738>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 14, 2002, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-guys-paying-for-your-isps/136738 "2002-11-14T16:17:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Krispy\_Original](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ec9cab/32.png) [@Krispy\_Original](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krispy_Original)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-guys-paying-for-your-isps/136738/21 "2002-11-16T03:54:25Z")

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I pay a local ISP $89 for 6 months of unlimited access dialup.

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**Author:** ![chula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@chula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chula)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-guys-paying-for-your-isps/136738/22 "2002-11-16T10:34:28Z")

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I’m with the **walrus**. I pay $35,000 a year for free dial up service (room and board extra). It sounds like you guys pay a lot, I had assumed that internet access was cheaper. Local phone bill, long distance, cell phone, cable, internet… the communication bills really start to add up.

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**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-guys-paying-for-your-isps/136738/23 "2002-11-17T00:05:19Z")

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I pay $40/month to Optimum Online here in Connecticut. I get about 500 kilobytes/second downloading from a fast site, and about half that uploading. The speed isn’t guaranteed, but in three years it’s stayed that fast.

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**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-guys-paying-for-your-isps/136738/24 "2002-11-17T00:14:47Z")

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Around $40 for cable modem. DSL is about $10 more, so no thanks.

During the summer, I paid $9.95 for Netzero/Juno’s service. I hope I don’t have to do that again.

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