One other item you might want to think about is sharing your newsprovider. It breaks your agreement with your newsprovider (like you case at this point) but you can share your account and bill with a friend.
You have to be careful about which provider you use.
Giganews will only let you connect one IP address at a time (with a 15 minute out before you can change it) but companies like newshosting let you connect from multiple IP addresses simultaneously, so you could set up your reader to say 4 streams and your friend has 4 streams. Each stream should still be good for a couple of mbps. If you need something in a hurry and you know your friend is not downloading (check with a phone call say) then bump your reader upto the full number of connections.
That way you only pay half the newsprovider each.
You have to be careful about which provider you use.
Giganews will only let you connect one IP address at a time (with a 15 minute out before you can change it) but companies like newshosting let you connect from multiple IP addresses simultaneously, so you could set up your reader to say 4 streams and your friend has 4 streams. Each stream should still be good for a couple of mbps. If you need something in a hurry and you know your friend is not downloading (check with a phone call say) then bump your reader upto the full number of connections.
That way you only pay half the newsprovider each.
