Liam’s View

It’s out of hand. Where does this Internet money grabbing stop? The fees keep piling up, little by little, and you would have never got into the internet if someone told you it was going to cost this much.

It starts with the computer. Ok, most of us that do the net already had one so we’ll over look this expense, it is the biggest expense, but one that’s not exclusively the fault of the net. There are many good uses for a home computer, even if it is a dinosaur, it can still make a doorstop.

Computer excluded. The Net starts with the monthly bill to an IPS to get you connected to this big, vague, cyber-thing. The basic Dial-up is going to run you from about $10 to $20 per month, maybe less if you’re in a big city, $15 probably the norm for most non-big city users.

Now if you have DSL, Cable, or Broadband of some sort, you’re going to be running say, $15 to $45 per month, depending again on location bandwidth and what’s available. We’ll say $30 on this one as a middle road, but this again is for a power user, which of course is the most likely user to incur most of the following items also, so we’ll put the ISP fee at $30 average for the following example.

Every little service wants a chunk of your precious dollars, pounds, cents, yen, won, francs, euros,…
And to fully experience the Net you feel you need them.

Here are some of the things you can get (or have gotten) yourself into: