How do you connect to the Internet from home?

I like it best because it never drops the connection like DSL did.

I love the speed and convenience of cable modem, but reasonable price? It's very expensive!

My cable at a strange speed of 780 mbs is much cheaper than DSL. Plus...in a rural area where those DSL towers are very rare, cable sometimes is an opportunity. Not always, however, and then dial-up is our only recourse. When cable came by most of us signed up, just for the interent. We have satellites for TV!

I have had Cox Cable for 2 or 3 years now, and I have been very pleased with the service once I got it running. I had heard very negative things about Cox, but it was what was available in my neighborhood. (No DSL, despite the fact that I live in Herndon, VA, which bills itself as home of the internet!) I didn't particularly want to get cable because I don't watch much TV, but now I wouldn't want to live without my Cox internet accesss and my Cox-supplied Scientific Atlanta DVR

I had a few missteps getting the cable installed and running, but once they got it up, service has been fantastic.

I have Netzero, I would like to get Verizon DSL but it isn't available in the country. I could get satellite but it's very exspensive. So I'm stuck with Dial-up.

Am in the same sinking boat..Was promised DSL by Verizon, but on the install day, they backed out and told me to send modem back! Can't get cable either and satellite is too expensive..Am using Allvantage for dial up..Works good..Very happy..Only $8.95 a month for high-speed..You are permitted 10 hours a day..

Did Verizon give you a reason why they backed out of the installion? Do you live in a rural part of your state? I'm in the rural (country) and my only choices for internet connections are Netzero or HughesNet satillite. I have the 3G with Netzero and it's not to bad. Although it can be slow as I only have 3 access numbers to use.Right now I'm only paying $9.95 until August, then it's $14.95 unlimited. Right now I'm satified I guess!

wow I'm really getting shafted here...I use bell for dial-up and we pay like 20 bucks a month.. plus the service is terrible and impossible to rely on. If I could get dsl I would but like the others it's not available in my area but of course bell keeps telling "it will be available soon". It's been four years of them telling us this and still we are left with the ever-so-slow dial-up. Whats your speed like for netzero? I usually get 46.6kbps up to 48.0kbps but can also go all the way down to 28.8kbps

You don't say where you are,no profile,nada.What/which Bell you with?.Maybe help if know more,thx
SS

I have used MetConnect free dial-up for years and only experienced a major problem once. I have no problems with them. In case anyone is interesed the number is 212-359-2000. It is only for NYC though.Ciao!

financial factors, what it is used for, etc. I was a heavy user until late last tear but that has changed. My ISP is America Online 9.0 Optimized SE (not the security edition) and I pay 19.95 a month for unlimited use. I am both elderly and disabled and have a fixed income and am below the standard of living for finances. I was doing genealogy in Sweden.
The modem was purchased when I had peoplepc.com and was getting many dropped connections and I thought it might have had to do with the red owl modem. It definitely needed to be updated for I had win98/win98se and upgraded to winme but the problem still was there so I switched to www.aol.com since the brand new US Robotics modem was still happening with peoplepc.com and the change said it all - no more broken connections.
With genealogy, the only problem I had was with rootsweb.com on aol. I didn't know swedish but I have learned a great deal since 1999. It has gotten the interest of my cousins who had no interest at all in CA . My aunt had given up after 30 years of research when I found the correct spelling of my swedish ancestors. I had another real tough one to find, Henry F. Lewis who said he was born in OH and was a son of indian chief. He was wrong on both counts. He was born in 1845 in Stockton, Rooks, KS but his parents were NY born who married in OH in 1844. This was a 50 yr mystery that has finally been straightened out. So, it is not necessary for to get faster speeds for this, I would have missed some valuable information. Darrell

John, how do you run a bandwidth test? I have cable through TimeWarner (roadrunner).

Betsy

Thanks Link, my test results show 1475.6. Good enough for me.

Betsy

Verizon DSL in Baltimore County, MD just measured 1684.6 Kbps on the bandwidth meter. It usually runs 1600-1800, sometimes just a little faster. Good enough for me!

I have Cablevision's Optimum Online. My speed test is 13.7 mbs. If I wanted to pay extra, I could have close to 30 mbs. I'm happy.

I've been the Dial-up and DSL route and between slow connect rates and lost connections I was fed up. I went with Cablevision's Optimum Online service about 4 years ago and I've only had 1 day that my service was down and they had a Dial-up backup service that I could use in emergency.

I'm very pleased with their fast download speeds and I've even gone the VoIP route with them at a discount since I had a Family Package Cablevion plan. Great service and decent price plans when all services are combined.

are you one of those people who spend life playing games at pogo.com and adding to their tally of 50 million tokens????????????

Dial up, which was all that was available to me for quite awhile, vs. Cable is somewhat life changing. If you've ever tried downloading and printing a 45 - 60 page manual with dial up...your patience runs REALLY thin when your ISP drops your connection umpteen times thru the download. The amount of time wasted was/is intolerable, and unacceptable. Even a puny sized download took forever with dial up. I'm not a "gamer," but cable's increased speed certainly made my life less stressfull, and my business on-line could be conducted much more effiently.