DSL Rate

I just figured out that someone asked me how much I was paying for my DSL Anyway: Base rate for the line is $29.95/mo. Round to $30. Add to that $35/mo for Qwest.net (the ISP) to be the host. Includes web space (which I no longer use) and mailboxes (which I won't be using much longer). Finally, tack on $15/mo for a private block of eight static IP's. Three are reserved to be the network, gateway, and broadcast addresses for my subnet (I'm subnetted off a class A block), and five are user-definable, function-wise. Subtract one more for the router interface, and that leaves me four usable. Total: A little under $80/month for everything, and that includes a guaranteed data rate of 256K down (I get 384 during rainy weather, and 512K during dry), and 272K up. If anyone knows of another ISP that can give me my own subnet for $50/month or less, and equivalent bandwidth, please say so. ;-) Hope that helps. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77 (Extra class as of June-2K) "I'll get a life when someone demonstrates to me that it would be superior to what I have now..." (Gym Z. Quirk, aka Taki Kogoma).