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If by having internet access at home means helping your financial future then Yes.

If you're concerned by a 1 year contract to TW then you've got commitment problems :) However what about going with a cell plan and tethering? of Verizon mifi?

If you use the internet at home primarily for work purposes you can deduct it from taxes. Not a huge saving but it helps. In addition if you do work form home you can deduct part of your rent or mortgage based on the space occupied.

Hope that helps

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It does help. Thank you.

To get to the thrust of my question: I feel taken advantage of that my co-founders are expecting me to get internet at home for work-purposes, while expecting that I'll be paying for it personally. I understand I am the CTO, and that creates some level of expectation that I have internet at home. But, at the end of the day, we're a funded company, and I feel they should pay for it if they feel that strongly about it. After all, when they want to go out to dinner to schmooze investors (as you would expect from a CEO), the company pays.

I suspect there is some underlying issue that you are not divulging. Do you get along with the founders ? Are you comfortable asking them to pay for the internet ? Do you feel you are being treated unfairly ? Talk these things out with them. Posting on HN is sort of a passive-aggressive way of dealing with the issue. Whether you should get internet at home is not the crux of your problem.

Thanks for the input.

Yes, I get along with the other founders. Yes, I've asked them to pay for it. And yes, they've declined. We're sort of at a deadlock.

I posted on HN so I could get input from other hackers. I don't feel that I should air my dirty laundry in public (hence the anonymity)

"I feel taken advantage of". Perhaps you feel taken advantage of in more ways than just this one?

ps: OF COURSE they should pay for it. Why are you (all) fighting over 20$/month? Frankly, that's ridiculous.