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Dial up from local provider, which happens to be the local telephone company. Only game in town. $22 a month for unlimited time. Anything else would involve long distance phone charges every time I go online. Satellite won’t help me. I’ve got a mountain in the way!

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I use access4less.net also for 4.95 a month. have had it over a year with no problems, get on between 42k and 49k.

I plan on getting isdn soon, $40 a month for the phone line plus the isdn capable provider (access4less says they don't support isdn). so total for phone and isdn will probably be 56 as compared to 44 total I am paying for dialup and phone.

AOL unlimited for $24 a month dial-up. We love it. Easy to use wherever we travel, which we do, and we take our laptop. AOL lets us connect with a local call almost everywhere-there is still one section of WV that doesn't have a local number for AOL, last I checked...it might now.

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I use dial up peoplepc. It seems to have pretty decent service. When I signed up as a new member they had a promo, so I paid 34.95 for 5 mos. Plenty of local numbers, more than AOL. There is no cable here, and sat. is way out of my price range.

Carla

I have AOL unlimited dial up for $17.95 a month. They used to charge $23.95 but if you call and tell them you are going to cancel due to the price they will lower it to $17.95 if you have been a customer for some time. They also gave me 3 months free to keep the service while I am injured. We are in a rural area with a local phone company and no hope of DSL in the near future.

MountainMama

I have AOL and Compuserve and pay $30/month for both. When I signed up for CS four years ago they had a special that you could get unlimited CS for 19.99/month and could sign up for unlimited AOL for an extra $10. So, I took it since DH has his own computer and we need to be online at the same time on ocassion. Since Charter is available here now we are looking at getting that for $49.99/month.

I have hi-speed cable internet - 60.00 a month around here. I was going to switch to dsl @30 month but the cable running from my street into my house is digital not copper and won't work for dsl!

hi-speed is fast, but expensive - it's one of our luxury's.

I'm too far out for DSL and our phone lines are horrid and can't keep a connection. We use wireless service through our local provider. We didn't pay for installation or the equipment because my Dh worked for the company at the time. It's $39.95 per month with high speed connection. Very happy with it.

Sarah

Was on Earthlink but now on www.surfbest.net dialup, $14.49 month with virus and spam filters. I like that I can go to surfbest website and see any "funny" emails in quarantine. In the past 3 months surfbest caught 5 virus emails and caught over a 100 spam emails. That works for me



Star

roadrunner cable 40/mo

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Gary in Central Ohio

Up until January of this year we had dial-up service at a blazingly fast 14Kbaud. Yes, that is 14,400 bits per second. Stupifying. It cost about $60 per month.

Then, after 15 years, our local itty-bitty, mom-and-pop telephone company put in DSL! We now get 800,000 bits per second for only $56 per month. What a deal! The service is very no-frills. One email box. No spam filters. No web space, etc. But I rent web space from a host down in Texas and run my email server through that to so it isn't a big deal. At least I've got a high speed connection now. I'm happy.

Late last year, after getting rather tired of the promise that next month the DSL would be available and having our mail feed die under the deluge of spam, I almost bought the Direct Way 6000 satellite connection. It would have been better than our dial-up connection. But luckly I didn't as the DSL is even higher speed, more reliable and half the price of the Direct Way.

Oh, when we moved here I hand laid 1.5 miles of telephone cable myself beyond the last pole to get service. No kidding, one point five _miles_ of underground cable - actually I put it in 1" plastic water pipe laying on the surface of the forest floor. It has lasted for 15 years and still looks good. That makes the DSL even more remarkable to have. I am just barely in range!

Life is good.

Cheers,

Walter
Sugar Mtn Farm in Vermont
on a mountain way out there...

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