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Grex Internet Item 76: Cheap slip/pp connection?
Entered by raven on Wed Jan 4 06:55:18 UTC 1995:

        Has anyone found a price better than $30.00/month for a slip
connection with unlimited connect time?  Note this is not to replace
my grex membership to supplement it so I can use Mosaic etc.

13 responses total.

#1 of 13 by scg on Wed Jan 4 08:23:24 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.

#2 of 13 by brenda on Wed Jan 4 18:56:57 1995:

Try oeonline.com   If you're in the Detroit area, it's a good choice.
It's 19.95 a month I think.  The SLIP connections are still having trouble,
but it's being worked on.  You can get there by telnet, or fromt he
Merit which host: prompt type oeonline.com.  You can get a free 2 week
trial to see if you like it or not.

#3 of 13 by cicero on Sun Mar 5 08:39:07 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.

#4 of 13 by raven on Tue Nov 28 04:01:10 1995:

        Does anyone know where I can get ahold of CIC net?  I'm told
they 20/month flat rate slip connections with A2 locl dialups.

#5 of 13 by rickyb on Tue Dec 5 19:26:52 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.

#6 of 13 by scg on Sat Dec 9 04:20:44 1995:

Isthmus is now doing PPP/SLIP accounts with unlimited time for $25 per
month.  They even give you your own IP address, rather than assigning 
them dynamically.  See http://www.izzy.net for mor einformation.

#7 of 13 by davel on Sat Dec 9 15:45:56 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>

#8 of 13 by srw on Sun Dec 10 02:58:03 1995:

You may be getting clipped by a modem idle timeout.

#9 of 13 by davel on Mon Dec 11 12:01:04 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.)

#10 of 13 by ying on Sat Apr 26 10:32:29 1997:

Which ISP you are using now ? how do you like it ? tell me in details.
This is a survey.

#11 of 13 by kaplan on Sat Apr 26 19:12:33 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.

#12 of 13 by forseer on Wed Feb 10 01:36:43 1999:

This is a question for # 6. IF they offer you a static IP and unlimited 
service, this is a much different than a leased connection? I know that 
leased connections cost more than a lot.

#13 of 13 by kaplan on Thu Feb 11 13:59:51 1999:

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

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