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