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Internet service: Cable vs. DSL vs. dial-up.(ONLINE SURVIVAL GUIDE)(Buyers Guide)
If you spend much time online, you're probably using a broadband Internet connection to your home or you are thinking seriously about getting one. Broadband offers near-instantaneous connections and swifter downloads than slower, albeit cheaper, dial-up Internet service.
But if broadband service is becoming almost a utility, it isn't yet as predictable and uniform in performance as that term suggests. In a survey of nearly 26,000 CONSUMER REPORTS subscribers--our largest-ever survey on Internet service providers (ISPs) and the first to rate broadband--we found differences in satisfaction with broadband service.
Here are the highlights of our findings:
...- Leading Asia/Pacific Internet Service Provider Installs Copper Mountain...
- Press release article from: Business Wire December 3, 2000 700+ words
...Pacific Internet (Nasdaq:PCNTF), a Singapore-based Internet Service Provider (ISP), has selected Copper Mountain's CopperEdge...for our immediate needs as we launch our SDSL business-broadband service and for future growth, Copper Mountain's CopperEdge...
- Motive Selected By Tin.it for Broadband Service Management; Telecom Italia...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 26, 2003 700+ words
...Telecom Italia Media's Internet Service Provider, is using the...encounter problems with their broadband service, Motive technology automatically...for customers to use our broadband service immediately. We are reducing...management strategies of broadband service ...
- Verizon to Widen Availability of Its DSL-Based High Speed Internet Service in...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire July 7, 2009 700+ words
...Based High Speed Internet Service in Texas; Expansion...Benefits of Verizon's Broadband Service to Many Consumers...Verizon's High Speed Internet service, delivered over...High-speed Internet service is important to...
- Verizon Broadband Service Scores Win in 2009 PCMag.com Readers' Survey for...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire November 11, 2009 700+ words
...Verizon: Verizon Broadband Service Scores Win in 2009...Readers' Survey for Internet Service Providers; Verizon...value-packed FiOS Internet service. For the fourth...have given our FiOS Internet service. From installation...High Speed Internet broadband ...
- Verizon Broadband Service Scores Win in 2009 PCMag.com Readers' Survey for...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 10, 2009 700+ words
...and value-packed FiOS Internet service. For the fourth consecutive...the Web site's annual Internet Service Provider (ISP) Service...readers have given our FiOS Internet service. From installation to...Verizon High Speed Internet broadband service to millions of ...
- Broadband service providers leaving money on the table.(BROADBAND...
- Newspaper article from: The Online Reporter July 27, 2007 700+ words
...discovering, acquiring and using new services from their ISP, according to a new survey from Radialpoint. The bottom line for broadband service providers--the phone companies, the pay-TV services and the upcoming WiMAX service from the Sprint-Clearwire combine...
- Verizon Brings Broadband Service to More Pennsylvania Residents, Businesses;...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 12, 2004 700+ words
...to Verizon's aggressive network investment in the state. The company expects to make Verizon Online DSL high-speed Internet service available on about 187,000 additional telephone lines across the Keystone State this year. Currently, approximately...
- T-Mobile HotSpot Wireless Broadband Service Joins Cisco Powered Network Program...
- Press release article from: Business Wire March 23, 2004 700+ words
...Inc. today announced that its T-Mobile HotSpot Wi-Fi Internet service has received the Cisco Powered Network designation. T...Mobile and Cisco are sponsoring complimentary Wi-Fi Internet service to CTIA Wireless 2004 conference attendees. About T...