Stan, Other than the word astronomy in your first sentence, this has nothing to do with astronomy. On Dec 4, 2011 1:00 PM, "Stan Gorodenski" <stanlep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is somewhat related to astronomy because if I have to go back to dial > up I will no longer be able to look at all the nice images members post in > Az-Observing. > Less than a year ago I always had dial up. Commspeed had a special high > speed offer for about $25/month. I just received, and verified with them, > that they are going to a new charging tier. It will no longer be based on > connection speed, but on gigabytes downloaded each month, hours of internet > browsing, and number of email messages received. Up to 10G/month the charge > is $44.90 plus $2 per G over 10G in a month. Does anyone know if this > portends a trend that other internet providers will be following? I will > being going back to dial up and put up with the inconvenience of making > trips to the library to download large items, although it is not a complete > inconvenience since it will get me out of the house. Being retired has its > disadvantages. > Stan > >