For SBC/Yahoo DSL I'm paying $14.99/month. Speed is adequate, except for my sons who like to download Simpsons episodes.
In rural western Oklahoma the phone co. wants to charge $50 or so per month for DSL. And only 768K at that. Friends with cable modems are paying $45/month for cable and another $40 or so per month for online access. But when I was @ Honda R&D, one of the guys who spent time in Japan said that they get, iirc, 10 megabit DSL for $10 per month. So, $60 for a cable modem is par. But it's high for DSL. Have you checked into a dialup with compressor/accelerator? Collin