I have ONE option for high-speed residential service, Time Warner.
It’s $78 for 300Mbps, which is good. But stick to consumption-only, you sad lonely couch potato.
If you want a static IP so you can actually PARTICIPATE in the internet, you’ll have to pay for “Business Class”, which is $129 for 15 up 2 down Mbps. Yes, THIRTY THREE POINT OH EIGHT times more expensive.
(300Mbps / $78) / (15Mbps / $129) = 33.08
Here’s the email I sent back to the sales rep (who was a total sweetheart, by the way – she was not the problem):
Thank you so much Kathleen for setting this up. I realize this is a full service contract, but as I mentioned on the phone, all I need in addition to my great residential service is a single static IP address. I just can’t justify the cost. I can set up a server with a static IP on Amazon’s AWS for one hundredth the cost. Do you see the price structure changing any time soon?
