[10851] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Two-way Internet service from Continental Cable?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Thompson)
Sat Mar 12 13:55:17 1994
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 1994 09:39:19 +0600
From: jim@tadpole.com (Jim Thompson)
To: fidelman@civicnet.org, sundar@ai.mit.edu
Cc: jmm@merit.edu, merit.com-priv@merit.edu
> But I was disappointed with the pricing. 100$/month for metro access (read
> other CCTV customers) 125$ for internet access. However, this is just
> for ONE computer in your home. If you have a little subnet running at
> home (now -- let's see now, how many of us are there), the price jumps
> to 1K$/month for routing stuff.
There is always the option of 'tunneling' (via IPIP or source routing)
via that one host. Of course, you have to have someplace to tunnel
'to', but that was implicit when you mentioned 'subnet'.
Jim
