It’s time to find how Dopers access the Internet.
Tell us who your ISP is and what you think of them.
Mine (at the moment) is SuperJANET.
Also tell us the speed you connect at, if you know.
MSN for another 42 days (that darn contract will finally be done). Then I’ll likely be switching to the one provided by my school, though I’m still asking for opinions on how easily I may actually connect (it will still be dialup…so I don’t know if there are problems getting)
Connection speed…I’m on dialup, so normally around 53k.
Road Runner via Bright House Networks, formerly Time-Warner.
Nildram (Here in the UK) on a BT Line.
Had an ADSL line with them for two years now and they are bloody brilliant - i’ve only ever lost the connection twice during that period and not been able to redial and the connection speed has always been top notch.
There customer service has generally been good too - plus they cut me some slack (and more importantly didn’t cut me off) on a couple of occasions when i kinda forgot to pay them.
I move house in a few months and i’ll definitely be going back to them for my new connection.
Comcast. Speed? I just downloaded a 3.6 mb file in 6 seconds.
- ISP? Comcast Cable.
- Like it? Love it.
- Connection speed? Lightning.
- ISP is SBC-Yahoo. Works great and we have 4 computers attached. I will never go back to dialup. The most recent speed test was 700kbps.
Comcast, who just took over for AT&T here who took over for RoadRunner 3 years ago.
It’s cable, it’s fast, it’s wonderful!
I’m with Earthlink of the formerly Mindspring variety. Earthlink sux compared to the Mindspring of old but compared to everything else available it’s pretty reliable. Mindspring’s thing, which was simple brilliance, was customer service and they worked their tails off at it and it just made you love 'em. Earthlink’s approach to customer service is more like AOL’s model.
“We’ve got you right where we want you so shut up and enjoy the ride.” But overall it’s not so bad as long as you don’t need anything.
i got netcom/earthlink. i’m sick of dial-up, but it’s my boyfriend’s account and he’s paying for it. he just wants the email address since he’s had it for years. i’m basically just paying for the phone line, so i can’t really bitch too much.
A combo:
RoadRunner
They’re up most of the time.
Fast
SkyNET
Very reliable
53k at most
Work Dial-up
Very Reliable
53k at most
Mostly, of course, I use RoadRunner. The other two are just for backup purposes; although, truth be told, I’ll be rid of the SkyNET connection (for near 6 years I’ve been with them) because I see no reason to keep it. I just have to ween my friends and family off of using that one e-mail address.
Currently Att Broadband, which is soon to become Comcast. I’m happy to see that others here are satisfied with Comcast.
Bredbandsbolaget, swedish ISP.
Reliable, cheap and best of all, 10Mbps connection. 
Earthlink DSL and I’m verra happy.
I just got (multiple) e-mails informing me that my AT&T Broadband is about to be converted to Comcast, so I’m with Boscibo in being glad that others are pleased with it. Of course, it will mean notifying umpteen people about a new e-mail address. At least they’ve assured my that my current address will be useable until sometime next year, unlike when Prime Cable was converted to AT&T and I had about sixty days.
A question for those with Comcast: I use Outlook for my e-mail, which caused me a little problem when AT&T was set up because they only supported Outlook Express and their tech support was totally clueless about how to set up the changes in access coding in Outlook. Is Comcast any better about this?
sonic.net - They’re a smallish, but delightfully reliable ISP north of San Francisco. The actual transport is by PacBell DSL.
Interestingly, I used to have PacBell as my ISP, but the service was dog-crap awful. With Sonic as my ISP, the service is flawless. In the past 8 months, I’ve had one 90-minute outage, and that was on a Sunday night.
I get around 1.3 Mbps on a static IP, which means the service is truly always-on. (No droputs every 4 hours for a dynamic IP release and reassign, like PacBell did)
Even better, they truly don’t care what you do with that connection, and actually are willing to help you configure a router. Around here, PacBell and AT&T/Comcast threaten to pull your fingernails out with rusty pliers and terminate your account or switch you to a business account if you even think about sharing the connection.
Who: Advanced Stream, an ISP that fronts for the municipal broadband network.
Impression: Very pleased, to put it mildly.
Speed: according to dslreports, I’m currently getting 1185/184 (advertised 1024/128). Not bad for 27.49/month.
EarthLink won’t tear your nails out, but they won’t help ya via tech support if you try and share the connection. Instead, you’re supposed to spend $12ish/month on top of the $50 a month you’re already paying.
I get my connection from my college, the University of Idaho; I get a solid 1.5 megabit connection all the time.
ISP: Verizon DSL
Speed: No actual numbers, but according to the self test that I just did, I can dl one megabyte in under ten seconds.
Impression: Superbly happy.