Community weekly poll: How do you connect to the Internet from home?
- 4/20/06 10:54 AM
ISP Time-Warner Road Runner cable/wireless modem
by bobsoots - 4/21/06 12:08 PM In reply to: How do you connect to the Internet from home? by Marc Bennett
I use Time-Warner Road Runner cable/wireless modem to connect to the internet. It is a fast, trouble free service. My only complaint is that I receive a lot of unwanted junk mail.
My ISP and what I think of them
by yappie71 - 4/21/06 12:47 PM In reply to: How do you connect to the Internet from home? by Marc Bennett
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 (Packet8).
SBC DSL vs Cablevision
by Linda Erkelens - 4/21/06 12:48 PM In reply to: How do you connect to the Internet from home? by Marc Bennett
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.
I use Wi-Fi
by patn6fdi - 4/21/06 12:49 PM In reply to: How do you connect to the Internet from home? by Marc Bennett
U Forgot to list WI-FI ???,. In your pole..
Lots Of People in RVs, "Mobles and Trailers"
Home:Internet Connection
by Gordon Wileman - 4/21/06 12:52 PM In reply to: How do you connect to the Internet from home? by Marc Bennett
Via Tiscali.co.uk
Optimum Online
by ksong12 - 4/21/06 1:35 PM In reply to: How do you connect to the Internet from home? by Marc Bennett
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.....
Optimum Online
by phrubin - 4/21/06 3:07 PM In reply to: Optimum Online by ksong12I used to live on Long Island and had Optimum On-line. It was not unusual for me to clock 8 MbS (1 MBS) , but often the web site sending me data couldn't feed me that fast when downloading a file.
If you use Wi-Fi, it may slow down any RF connected PCs with a weak signal, or if it is the older standard.
I'm now in TN and use Comcast. The PC connected directly to the router regularly gets 4 MbS, but the Wi-Fi connected unit runs much slower. I'll try to re-install the driver for it.
Paul
Media Com
by cwcsquared - 4/21/06 1:46 PM In reply to: How do you connect to the Internet from home? by Marc Bennett
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
SBCYahoo DSL
by alray1989 - 4/21/06 2:02 PM In reply to: How do you connect to the Internet from home? by Marc Bennett
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.
Connection to Internet
by andy6319 - 4/21/06 2:22 PM In reply to: How do you connect to the Internet from home? by Marc Bennett
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?
Cable UK NTL very good
by RunRagged2 - 4/21/06 2:41 PM In reply to: How do you connect to the Internet from home? by Marc Bennett
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
Verizon DSL and happy with it!
by aliensquirl - 4/21/06 3:27 PM In reply to: How do you connect to the Internet from home? by Marc Bennett
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.
Verizon Fios...Yeah Baby!
by sundy - 4/21/06 3:29 PM In reply to: How do you connect to the Internet from home? by Marc Bennett
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!
Bellsouth DSL Lite
by hankles - 4/21/06 3:30 PM In reply to: How do you connect to the Internet from home? by Marc Bennett
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.
Dial Up
by l_pavon - 4/21/06 3:33 PM In reply to: How do you connect to the Internet from home? by Marc Bennett
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
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