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Originally Posted by hacker
I'll give you an example: In the Northeast US (where I live), you can get "Home" DSL (1.5/128k) for about $20.00/month. If you want that same DSL without any ports blocked, you'll pay $130/month for that same exact speed using the same exact DSL modem (yes, that's 6x more for the same exact service). Want to up that 128k to something useful like 384k? You're now paying $179.00/month for it.
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Wow, that's actually
really insane.
Up here, in Canada (west coast), we get 512kbit up, and 5mbit down (although it tends to only reach up to 3mbit down most of the time - the upload speed is often the full speed, however) cable for about $40 a month (Canadian, of course - apparently around $33 US). And there are
no blocked ports. I can run a web server, an IRC server, an FTP server, probably a mail server (never tried), a SSH server, among other things, with no problems.
According to the TOS, they do 'reserve the right' to either restrict bandwidth usage and/or charge you if you heavily overuse the bandwidth, but they haven't said/sent/charged anything to me yet (I've used up to, maybe, 30-40gb of combined up/down bandwidth in one month, on some months where I've been using Bittorrent a lot).
I guess things are quite different in the US, from the point of pricing and ISPs...