I pay a measly $27 a month for a 56k connection versus around $60 month for cable - which - I would pay in a heartbeat if it were not for the 5 gig per month data transfer limit after which I'd need a second job to keep up with the criminally punitive 'excess' fees - yes its sloooow but its still viable in fact it has the ok side effect of encouraging doing other stuff at the same time as waiting 40 minutes for that 5mg mp3 file to 90 percent download before the host disapears and you have to start searching all over again - on the other hand my first modem had a baud rate of 1.2 (green letters sliding one after the other across the screen left to right line by line) so 56 is as close to heaven as I'm going to get untill Bobo the Red starts an Australian cable company and Telstra crumbles under the weight of its own arrogance and indifference to customers

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