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From: mra@srchtec.uucp (Michael Almond)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Internet Access Costs
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Date: 24 Nov 90 16:39:41 GMT
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We were recently discussing the cost of connecting to the internet.  Someone
mentioned a magic number of $100 per month to connect to the net.  The lowest
price I had found at the time was a SLIP connection to PSInet for $250.

We'll David Smith from PSI gave me a call earlier this week to let me know, due
to some cost reductions in hardware, they will be offering SLIP connections to
PSInet for $150 a month.  This deal will only last until the end of the year
though.   I suppose they are testing the water to see if price really does
effect their market.

Anyway, we are definitely going with PSInet.  The Atlanta POP will be up
sometime in January and I can let you everyone know what SLIPing is like
on the internet.

The only bad aspect of SLIPing I can see so far is that PSInet will not call
us when they see packets with our address in them.  However, our LAN will
call PSInet because we're using a NetBlazer.

One other item: PSI says we will not have a constant IP #.  It supposedly
changes each time we establish a connection with them.  However, our address
will remain constant (probably searchtech.com).  I'm hoping this will not cause
too many problem with our local setup, but I guess we're going to find out!

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Michael R. Almond (Georgia Tech Alumnus)           mra@srchtec.uucp (registered)
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