I bet that cost an arm and a leg back then :/
Well, it started free, as Demon were running it as a trial
(well, it cost the tenner a month for the account, as normal) but I expected to end up dropping to a 512Kb product after a while.
The trial kept running a little longer than expected. Then there was some confusion over swapping to a 512 service, so I kept the 2Mb while waiting for 512 to become available properly (I wasn't going back to dial-up at any price!). Then it turned out that Demon forgot to charge me for a while
... long enough for the price to have dropped to something almost acceptable (only 1 arm and half a leg). At the point I *should* have done something about it, IIRC, I expected it to take some effort to get the USB frog working with Linux so never quite managed to sort things out.
Finally, I ended up doing contracting work partly based from home - at which point I could justify the cost easily.
mine was a fully-fledged Alcatel modem/router.
I wonder if it was because you were on 2Mb - which would have been classed as 20:1 business that you got a posh modem/router.
That's a good point - it probably was treated as a business connection.
And it was certainly early - the engineer reckoned I was one of the first on the exchange.