Exactly. When I was in school a few years ago I had to deal with a residential internet provider that thought it would be amusing to suddenly block outgoing TCP port 22 for no particularly clear reason, and I ended up having to trek down to the labs to do all my assignments rather than just SSH from home through most of my senior year. Now I live in the middle of Seattle, I could get DSL or whatever easily enough, and I chose a full T1 from Speakeasy for $460/mo instead, and I get no blocked ports, no bandwidth caps, and my own /27.