$60-80 a month for each one of those users (our bill is about $120 counting TV as well). Not counting the fact that local governments subsidize the last mile.

$60-80 a month for each one of those users (our bill is about $120 counting TV as well). Not counting the fact that local governments subsidize the last mile. Also that routers and networking equipment keeps getting cheaper and faster. It'll take a lot before I start to feel sorry for my ISP. The thing is, I get amazing speeds from other sites and very good speeds from my EC2 boxes. Downloading MS/Ubuntu ISOs are just beautiful. But those just aren't mainstream uses so I'm sure Verizon doesn't throttle those servers.