cheap Internet access?

[aafpoc]

Like many of us on this community, I'm a grad student living on tiiiiiny stipend, and have recently realized that I'm spending more on internet access ($60/month) than on food and utilities combined. I have cable; can't get DSL (or even, gasp, dialup) because I've never been able to get a landline guy to actually show up here to put in a line.

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[tbonestg]

Well, you could go with BASIC basic cable. Here that runs about $11 a month. They install a filter to block out extended channels. Then, once they leave, you remove the filter and get extended basic.

[lost_almost]

How do you remove the filter?

[tbonestg]

You unscrew it. It's rediculously easy to do. Just make sure you put it back if you need them to do service or something...

[tbonestg]

It's a silver cylinger about 2 1/2 inches long and maybe 3/4 inch in diameter.

[tbonestg]

and you can have my firstborn.

Well, I'm figuring you don't have much else to offer at this point...

[tbonestg]

Do you really have BASIC basic? (It'll give you like 20 channels, tops) Or do you have extended basic? (70-80 channels, but most of them suck)

[tbonestg]

Until now.

[feylin17]

HA! oh god, that's the funnies thing i've heard all day. Telemundo??? That's actually kind of entertaining....untill it gets really fucking annoying.

Now you've got choices!

[trundle]

Same thing is true if you have cable internet with no cable tv service. We did that for about a year. =)