What's the monthly cost of a T1 line?

Here ya go. I found this online.

Starting at $595 per month

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this

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this.

Although I don't know anything about this type of stuff myself.

holey crap! I didn't know it was that expensive! A couple of years ago I used to run a small genealogy web site through my dsl with a static IP address right on my desktop computer. I really want to get back into the webmastering business and thought it would make more sense to have my own server since I'm good with hardware maintainance. Couldn't see paying a company to do it. But it sounds like it's actually cheaper to have a company host for you!

In Japan you can get an FTTH fiberoptic connection (with a speed of 100 Mbps as opposed to 1.544 Mbps T1) in your home for as little as $25 bucks a month. There are hundreds of thousands of people using it already, though there should be more considering it's only marginally more expensive than ADSL & it's available to a fairly wide area. That $25/month fee includes 1 static IP, and unlimited free bandwidth.

(That isn't available anywhere else in the world though.)

Japan get's all the best stuff! But that doesn't help me

do you have comcast there?

It very competitive out there and there are great deals for shared and dedicated servers. Comcast has a static IP solution for $95.00 per month but I forgot the BW.

I don't believe that we do. Only Qwest, CableOne and a local outfit called FiberPipe. Boise isn't really known for it's wiring...

Also, I'm new to this town so I haven't really checked out the local communications services yet. I will probably go with a hosted service.