[NTLUG:Discuss] ISP Recommendation

[Bug Hunter]

  Well, a telephone line costs an ISP between $25.00 and $35.00 a month in
the DFW area. T1 access costs over $1000 a month, for servicing up to
100 phone lines (average).  They typically host 10 dial up users per phone
line, based on average calling times and call patterns.  This over
subscription is how they pay for their computers, electricity, and
salaries. Typically, an ISP charges $10 to $19 a month for that phone line
dial up access.

  If a person wants to tie up one phone line full time, then to break
even, an ISP must charge between $60 and $120 a month depending upon
overhead (phone bills, salaries, electricity, replacing hardware, etc).

  I have yet to see a store owner willing to sell a product for $1.00 to
only one person just to have the sale, when the product costs the store
owner $2.00, and he is selling it to everyone else for $3.00.

  You are always free to start your own ISP and prove everyone else wrong.:)

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On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Mark Bainter wrote:

> I'm new to the area and looking to hook up with an isp.  I want to be on
> pretty much full time.  I saw the message similar to this one but he
> seemed to have that as less of a requirement.  I don't buy the unlimited
> but not unlimited balogna.  I used to work for an ISP, I know how the 
> system works.  The proportion of users that stay on versus those that
> don't evens out.  I want an isp wise enough to know this.  I need to
> access my system from work and that means leaving it dialed up.  If
> I was able to pay the obscene amount they want for "dedicated" access
> I'd be buying SWbell's ADSL not a dialup account.  
> 
> Hex.net is apparently not it.  I check ticnet.com and they aren't either.
> Anyone have any other suggestions?
>