How do you connect to the Internet from home?

Cox Communications,yes,I'm very happy with their service.It's reliable and fast.

I live in the tulleys of kansas and no choice but use dial up but it was slower then death , the lowlifes at sprint and I do mean low lifes sold out to another company and promise to bring out fiber this summer however I don't beleive that there starting to act
like sprint with crappier service then sprint

rather then deal with dial up any more I bought a "G"
card and its faster alot faster then dial up
myself and family are pleased as a matter of fact !
I had to put My dell XPS 600 in the window but have great signal but its unsecured so I disable it every time I walk away from the computor but for for folks out in the tulleys , with crappy lowlife phone companys it works well , much better then dial up
at best Buy $46.00 bucks plus tax
Raremood@kansas.net

I think that most folks just don't know the data rates commonly available in other parts of the world.

If they did, no one would be happy with the rates available in the US. Just a case of assymmetrical information leading to an illogical conlusion.

In Japan 32Mbps $15(US) .
In Atlanta, GA 6Mbps costs $56(US).

Fives times less the speed at almost four times the cost.
Now that's capitalism American style.
Look the prices up for yourself if you don't believe it. We are getting royally screwed here while CEOs rake in tens of millions annually.

We Americans think we are smart because the companies raping us, tell us we are. And we seem to like the arrangement.

Hi!
I connect via DSL and my Canadian ISP is Bell Sympatico.
It's their ''lite'' deal, which, if you use the internet fairly often, or upload / send photos, ISN'T a deal!
Because of broadband usage in excess of what's covered in Sympatico's ''lite'', I end up paying a LOT more than what it would have cost me to have elected for the Sympatico ''high speed'' package in the first place.

So, be aware that any usuage above the bare minimum has expensive strings attached! I would imagine this also applies to other ISP's and their ''lite'' packages.

It used to be justifyable to charge three times dialup prices for cable for the speed and lack of user base, but now it's just gouging. The phone company (Verizon) finally figured out that they were charging too much for land line service, so their prices dropped for phone and DSL service. DSL has dropped to dial up prices and they are offering fiber hookup for present cable price at twice the speed upload and download. They will also offer streaming video in the future. The competition begins, hopefully the price war will follow. Maybe we will win again for a while.

Been using Verizon DSL ( avg 1.4 mbps)for about 2 years and was happy with it FioS became available for Phone and Internet recently and switched very happy with speed ( avg 5 mbps) and will switch to the tv service when available Cablevision very GREEDY on Long Island!

I have Adelphia (Southern California) and love it! No problems at all once they got the bugs out when it was first installed out here, about five years ago.

finally got rid of my old dial up. connection was 23.5 bps...now have DSL...hook up is 100.0 mbps..what a world of differance...Actually saved money by going DSL...only one phone line now and isp is though my DSL company....kinda like killing two birds with one shot...lol....plus a cheap router and upstairs and down stairs puters share the same hook up... :&gt

Here in Japan, almost nobody uses dial up or even ISDN anymore. The two most popular methods are ADSL and fiber. In the major metropolitan areas, cable is also widely used, but fiber is the fastest growing and most common broadband access here. NTT (Nippon Telephone and Telegraph) also was broken up by the government like 'Ma Bell' so there is NTT East, NTT West and a few others. The major ISP is OCN. Since that also was getting a bit ubiquitous, the government made them break up a little so now we have OCN North and OCN South, and a few more. I use Plala which is an offshoot of OCN. But there is no dearth of ISPs here; many to choose from, and they are all very reasonable compared to 'stateside' prices. My fiber connection costs me about $50 a month, and my ISP about $9 a month. Distance from the server makes a difference, and where I'm located, I get about 29-30mbps.

I use Optimum OnLine and just got Optimum Boost and am downloading at 30Mbs.

I;ve been using Delta Cable for about 5 years, & for the most part, I've no complaints in that I often get download speeds of 600-800 K.

I have SBC Yahoo DSL and no I am not happy with it. It keeps getting slower and slower.
Joy

I absolutely hate the speed. The problem is the old 1950s wiring in my neighborhood. The fastest any computer with a 56K modem can connect at my house is 28.8K. I refuse to pay Comcast's OUTRAGIOUS broadband cable rates. The same cabling that limits my dial-up speed is incompatible with DSL. I will move to DSL when the local infrastructure will support it. AOL has been great, primarily for the family service. I can remotely adjust the access my children have, from anywhere in the world, when I am traveling. (my wife is a technophobe) Its Parental Controls have effectively shielded them from the dark side of the web.

I signed up at Comcast in 2000 and have never turned back.

cable, broadband,very happy.

Linksys Gateway Modem/Router,
Linksys Wireless Network adapters on 2 desktops and 1 laptop

speeds OK, price somewhat reasonable. Tech support when it's needed (fortunately very seldom) is terrible.

Cable. Sure once you've a fast connection you never want to go back. The big operators are working their semi-monopoly for all it's worth. Gads how I pray for meaningful competition. Medium size city (Rio Rancho, NM) with conceivably 2 wireless providers - yeah, right. Neither is making much headway with short distance required from their towers. Phone company? Well, you know they're the folks we all came to hate eons ago. Cable and phone companies structure it to almost force you to bundle services. Voip takes care of my land-type phone services at an attractive price and services galore. My cable operator (Cable One) in effect forces TV package 2 notches up from what I really want. Don't want God channels, Spanish channels, premium channels or pay per view. That makes them the nowadays hated phone company. Was disappointed that an available satellite provider (USDTV) - with good basic TV channels promised high speed but only came through with "high-speed" due to technology costs.

Love it! I haven't had a problem in over two years of service.

We use Time Warner Road Runner here in Cincinnati and I have it hooked up to my own linksys wireless network. I have had very few problems with RR and when I have had them, they are quick to resolve the issues. No long waits on the phone. My moden died a few months ago and they were also quick to replace it with a home visit. Highly reccommended.