Internet Access

Rochester area Internet Service Providers and other Internet Access

• Time Warner — Promotional Rate (New customers) $29.95/month for a 10 Mbps/384 kbps download/upload, $39.95/month standard rate. PowerBoost increases download and upload speed for the first several seconds of a transfer (added 8/14/08). Turbo service available for extra $9.95/month for 15/1 Mbps. According to Business Week, Time-Warner will institute consumption billing and tiered pricing in the Rochester market beginning in Summer, 2009. The pricing will range from $29.95/month for a 5 GB/month to $54.90/month for 40 GB/month. Usage above plan amounts will be priced at $1/GB.

• Frontier — $30/month for 3 Mbps downlink. Also has a higher Service level with a speed of up to 10 Mbps down. Download cap of 5 GB/month for all levels of DSL service (currently not enforced)
  

• Netsville — http://www.netsville.com/ Very cool company, but expensive service.
  

• see http://www.dslreports.com/

• BlueFrog — Bluefrog is a very cheap and, as I have found, a very reliable dial-up provider. Current cost is $9.99 per month. (I joined years ago and pay only $23 for 3 months)

• WiFi Hot Spots
  

• GSM:
  

• Cingular should have a nationwide HSPDA system available at the end of 2006.
  

• T-Mobile should have a nationwide HSDPA system available 2007.
  

• CDMA:
  

• Verizon has made 1xEV-DO available in Rochester see their site for more details.
  

• Sprint Nextel should have a nationwide 1xEV-DO available at the end of 2006. It is available in Greater Rochester according to their coverage map.
  

• WiMAX:
  

• Clearwire is planning to offer service in Rochester in the autumn of 2007. By summer 2007 they were offering service in Syracuse. Cost is somewhat competitive to cable and DSL. Transfer rates are 256kbps up and 768kbps, 1.5Mbps, or 2Mbps down.
  

• What is WiMAX? See Wikipedia's information on WiMAX.
  

• The Sewer Fiber Optic Network

• Computer Interest Groups
  

• Computer Stores
  

• Cyberlinkages
  

• Hackers
  

• Podcasts
  

• WiFi Hot Spots

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2005-07-25 09:35:30   It's pretty clear comparing the prices here to prices in a bigger city, that competition in bigger cities lowers the cost. —FarMcKon

2007-05-21 00:01:28   For those who aren't up-to-the-minute updated on technological advances in internet technologies, instead of using acronyms with no descriptions for wireless technologies, maybe we should explain them a teeny bit more for someone who doesn't keep up-to-date or is less tech-oriented. Or link to an article on it with the basic idea, like we do on WiMAX. I only know what WiMAX is because it's in my textbook from fall semester. —JoannaLicata

2008-03-25 13:35:12   Is anyone reading this using Clearwire? I am curious about its performance. —RudyBang

2008-08-14 23:27:02   added changes to TW rate, added PowerBoost information —PhillipDampier