response 1 of 13:

Jan 4 08:23 UTC 1995

If you are somehow related to a school, you can get it from Merit/MichNet
for around $10 per month, I think.  Otherwise, they charge $35 per month.

response 3 of 13:

Mar 5 08:39 UTC 1995

upon reading this I telnetted to oeonline.com to check it out.  It turns
out to be a service run by the Observer-Eccentric Newspapers, and yes, they
are offering internet and SLIP access (there's a 40 dollar set-up fee for a
SLIP account.  Prices are 19.95 per month billed to a credit card, or 14.95
per month paid for 6 months up front, or an incredible 9.95 per month paid
for 1 year up front!  Which one do you think I went for?  ;)

They can apperantly be reached through Merit, or through a dial-in in 
Livonia.

response 5 of 13:

Dec 5 19:26 UTC 1995

re#3:   does oeonline.com have local dial-up service for Ann Arbor/Ypsi?
        in rspns#2 it was implied you could connect to them via Merit, but
        is this still true?

        I've tried sojourn.com, who was supposed to be a local dial-up
        (via Merit) but Merit bumped them off the modems as restricted
        hosts.  They are supposed to be installing their own dedicated
        modems which will be accessed via the Merit numbers, but they are
        at least 2 weeks past due for that.  They charge about $18/mo for
        slip/ppp access.

response 7 of 13:

Dec 9 15:45 UTC 1995

We've got one (or something quite similar from them) now.  We're having
problems with the modem losing connect overnight.  (If the system we're
using supports recognizing this, killing the slipd process, & redialing
automatically we haven't figured out how.  I'm likely to have to write
something to do this.  <sigh>

response 9 of 13:

Dec 11 12:01 UTC 1995

That was my own guess.  So I wrote a little program to run in the background
& ping the host we're connected to every 15 minutes.  Seems to have worked,
mostly but not always, but maybe the modem's timeout is 15 minutes & sometimes
we're hitting it & sometimes not.  (OTOH, we think we'd gone a couple
of hours OK without activity without the pinger, so we're still in the dark.
At least the pinger is providing hard info on WHEN we go down.)

response 11 of 13:

Apr 26 19:12 UTC 1997

I used to work indirectly for http://wwnet.net and I still use it as a
regular customer.  Signed up for their $150 per year plan and I expect to
renew.  Performance is pretty good and busy signals are pretty unusual in my
expirence.  Although their Ann Arbor number does not always work for me, they
have another dialin I can use which is very consistant.

My second favorite local ISP is ICnet because they give grex a really good
deal for its link to the 'net.

response 13 of 13:

Feb 11 13:59 UTC 1999

resp:6 was entered a long time ago.  I assume that they no longer offer 
statis IP addresses in 1999.