cheap ISP for low-bandwidth use?

[Tom Roche]

[Apologies if this is too off-topic: I'm a new user of this list.]

For how cheap can one rent a reliable, Linux-compatible internet connection in the Valley? What I mean, why I ask:

I was a longtime user of TWC/Roadrunner (data only--been TV-free for decades) for internet access at my previous home. ~2012 (IIRC) TWC raised their internet-only price to (IIRC) >60 $/mo. I raised both middle fingers and switched to FreedomPop's {$24, 10 GB}/mo Sprint-4G-based home service. FP

* played well with my (now-aging, but all up-to-date Debian) laptops and WRT54GL router

* was generally reliable (except during major thunderstorms). Particularly, it tolerated my then-employer's kludgey VPN (used for SSH-ing into compute/storage clusters).

* was fast enough (though faster is always better :-)

* gave just enough data (I don't game or stream much video) that I never went over-limit (which would have incurred fairly onerous charges).

- had very bad customer service/support, which I was barely able to tolerate given the price delta with local competition.

I recently relocated at roughly the same time as FP announced its home device (the FreedomPop Hub Burst) would EOS. This is not currently a problem--I'm sharing a roommate's ISP--but eventually I'll probably need to get my own connection. So I'd like to know what other folks (if anyone on this list is as cheap as I am :-) are doing for cheap internet access. Bridging off phones? Jumping from one yearly teaser rate to another? Something Completely Different?

TIA (if not OT), Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com>