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- From: mbarkah@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Ade Barkah)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: Internet question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.010230.54679@slate.mines.colorado.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 01:02:30 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.185944.6394@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
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- 13501TMC@MSU (Tim Casey) writes:
- :
- : Does anyone know the cost associated with getting Internet access from
- : home (i.e. a direct hookup compared to sharing time on a server)?
-
- That greatly depends on what you want (i.e., the speed and type
- of the connection.) Using serial modems, 'SLIP' is the most popular
- method to connect to the net. Speeds range from 9600-38.4kbps,
- and the cost is around $200 a month depending on your internet
- provider. You'ld also need the appropriate software for this
- (inet packages for unix, plus the SLIP, which is actually free.
- DOS and OS/2 users probably need some sort of a TCP/IP package.
- I'd say they're around $150-$250.) Add whatever it will cost
- to have a dedicated phone line.
-
- More dedicated lines are, of course, more expensive. Companies
- like UUNET have 56.4kbps leased lines available... it may cost
- around $1000 to set it up, and several hundred a month to run.
- Then there are T1/T3 lines. I think those cost about $3000 to
- set up and somewhere around $1000/month to run. For uunet, you
- can ftp their rates and policy from 'ftp.uu.net.' I'm not
- associated to uunet in any way, it's just that that's about
- the only company I'm vaguely familiar with.
-
- Regards,
-
-
- -Ade.
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