Back in the late 90s, early 2ks, the cable isp in our area started rolling out cable internet and VoIP phones. At the time, the cable internet was more expensive than we could afford, but their digital tv service included 2 phone lines, both digital (not quite isdn, but 51kb/s was normal on them). They also had a deal where the calls to their isp was "free" but had a limit of 2 hours and it would drop. I got my hands on an old 486 pc, added a modem and a nic and set it up using a router os running off a floppy. Can't remember the name off hand now. Anyway, every time it dropped, it reconnected and I was back online. Fast forward 2 months and the first phone bill arrived. It arrived in a large a4 envelope with about 100 pages in it. I opened it and the first set of pages was the internet line. Every 2 hours a line item. During the evening I was charged 1c per min. So a shite load of times for 2.40. Then in the day it was 4c per hour. So more charges for 4.80... and it just went on from there. 90 something odd pages of this. Last line item: total nearly 5 grand! And then after it, credit for the same amount. They didn't charge for the calls. The next bill came out and they stopped itemizing the bill. Bit of a panicky moment before the credit was applied. Was on that for 3 or 4 months then moved to cable Modem. Fun times.