Today is a great day. Today, the Sussman household traded in their dial-up internet connection for broadband! Yea!
Last week I wrote about how my dial-up ISP was going out of business and I needed to find a new ISP quickly. I found a descent replacement dial-up service but then I found out that Time Warner Cable offers Road Runner Lite. This is a service they never promote because they’d rather you pay twice the price for the full Road Runner. It provides connection speeds of 1.5 Mbps (1,500 kbps). Then I did the math.
$13/month for dial-up ISP
$30/month for the cost of having land-line telephone service
Equals $43/month
$30/month for Road Runner Lite broadband cable modem
$20/month for increased cost to double our family mobile minutes
Equals $50/month
So for just $7 more each month we now have a broadband cable modem, well worth it for internet connection speeds 25-30 times faster than our old 56K dial-up!
To quote Obi-Wan Kenobi: “You’ve taken your first step into a larger world.”