How do you connect to the Internet from home?

I use Adelphia cable in Santa Monica, Calif. They used to have some issues with email, and occasional outages, but seem to have cleaned all that up with an upgrade that heppened about November 2004 (finishing about February 2005). Since then, only one outage of three hours (and I'm on all the time), and 5 megs down and 256k upstream. It's so reliable, I dropped my legacy Verizon phone line and now use only my voice-over-IP lines (Packet.

I did have a Cablevision cable modem, and switched to SBC DSL when SBC offfered a package deal. The DSL works a lot better for me than did Cablevision, even though they were supposed to be delivering equivalent bandwidth. I suspect Cablevision was using up all their bandwidth for TV. - For instance they never could deliver "movies on demand", even tho that was supposed to be available.
However SBC (now AT&T) has never been my friend. Their rates are high, they reneged on part of their deal without even an apology, and their customer service is not good.

U Forgot to list WI-FI ???,. In your pole..
Lots Of People in RVs, "Mobles and Trailers"

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I use Optimum Online Cable service. 15000 kb/s? YEAH RIGHT! Not in my area anyway. On broadbandreports.com, some users do report such high speeds, but not in my area. (Broadbandreports says about 800 kb/s here). Nevertheless, I am happy. Need service? Call em up and there here tommorow. I am satisfied, except for the speed.....

I used to live in SoCal, where the phone company (Verizon) has fiber optic lines everywhere. The DSL was blazing fast.
Now that I have come to Iowa, the DSL sucks, so I use Media Com Cable. Media Com is terrible. The brag all the time about all this great new equipment they have acquired (using that as the excuse for reaming us on the cost of the service), yet there is never a week that goes by without at least one significant outage of service.
I wish the phone company would spend the money on fiber optics out here.
Craig C
Ames, Iowa
http://blogresponder.blogspot.com

SBC (AT&T) DSL stinks in this area (zip 63125).
I have never achieved more than 312kbs and most of the time it is in the 160kbs range.
Had SBC Tech out to check it out. They said this is the best it is going to be. I am 14,780 feet fro the switch and there is no plans to put in an RT.

I use CABLE (Comcast) and have done so for the last 5 years. I get great speed with the connection to the net but I have one pet peave...their downloads are not compatable with my computer running Win ME,IE Ver. 6.0.2800.1106, Cipher Strength 128 Bit, Update Vers's., SP1, Q905915, Q837009, Q891781.Does anybody know of incompatabilities or something else that will stop me from using all their (Free) Downloads?

I connect from home using cable modem via NTL in the UK.
They have three grades of service, I use the 2M service.
I am happy with the service, good download speeds and good reliablitiy.
Regards
David

I've had Verizon DSL for about a year and a half and there has been only one short downtime due to Verizon problems. It is plenty fast for me and considerably cheaper than cable so I don't even think about changing.

Very solid since the beginning..I haven't called there tech support since they installed it last year compare to my Comcast cable and its $5 cheaper....Next stop is the FIOS TV!

Very satisfied and it is plenty fast for everyday use. I just used the broadband test and it said 1000.5 kbps. That's pretty good for a service that is advertised at 256 kbps.

I live in the country where its the only option (besides 70 a month satelite) I use earthlink and have not had problems. Real happy with them

I connect from home on dial up on a 56K modem using Juno. Have very few problems and have had great success in getting help from their support team by email. Have used Juno for 10 years. I use their paid version with accelerated upgrade.

I have cwnet.com as my isp and only pay 4.95 a month. i am very satisfied with the service. i live in the san diego area and average 54,666 kps on a pt-tel v.92 modem with a 500 mghtz amd k-6 system.

I was connected via Direcpc for a while($500+ for the equipment which is now a lawn ornament). I discontinued service because it was too expensive ($59 per month). I am now on Dial-up and am slowly going insane. Just to reply to this poll was a major sacrifice. I got up and made a cup of coffee and your page was still downloading. With all this technology you'd think they'd come up with something affordable and dependable for us out here "in the sticks".

I don't see any use to using cable based dial-up services for the pc ... The main reason is security ... Windows is so full of holes now that I need enhanced virus protection ... I use fast dial up service from SPNT.com , and average 52K on all my downloads ...

I'm tired of paying so many different monthy fees for this & that. Since my job has me on the go the majority of the time I have a single sollution - a PCMCIA Card from Verizon. Yep $60 a month, unlimited access anywhere they offer service! I live in Las Vegas & they offer an EVDO network so I average speeds of 400Kbps +... I'm a business user checking email, casual web browsing - I could care less about downloading music or porn. I need reliable access that I can use anywhere, not just at home. I have turned off all other services at home & using all "wireless" systems for my phone & internet. (no I don't have cable either - I've got better things to do than sit in front of my TV for hours while by brain turns to mush...) Yeah - I know - "wierd!" With my laptop I am productive & mobile at a moments notice...

DSL from Quest, which I fondly refer to as WORST.
Overpriced for service which is 4 times faster in outlying areas compared to the speed at the edges of the city. (which is where I live)
Santa Fe, NM

I have used RoadRunner cable for a couple of years. Nary a glitch to speak of so far. The small problems I have had were solved by very knowledgable courteous techs. The EZArmor_RR virus and firewall have serviced me well. My OS is 98SE.

while someone in Tokyo paid $8,000 for a Lexus. That's the difference in value of what we call high speed internet in the US and what is available in say....Japan.

Not that you should go back to dialup but why pretend paying 100K for a Ford Escort is a good deal?

What we need is legislative pressure to regulate the entire industry. All of it.

Right now, we are getting ****** so that telco execs can make 25 million/year.

Uncool.

I recently signed up with Clearwire. It's simply a modem that you plug into any outlet and into ethernet on pc. Can go anywhere. No cables or phone lines. I believe it works off of satelite. Broadband. I love it.