Email Accounts and Internet Service Providers

Connecting to the Internet - ISPs

Connecting to the Internet requires a connection to a network either internally, such as a connection within a large business or college campus which maintains its own server, or externally, such as a connection to an ISP ( Internet Service Provider) which maintains the server for you to use. Some common ISPs are ATT, Comcast and Sprint. Generally, these companies offer services costing anywhere from 6.95 per month (dial up speed) to $19.95 per month for fast speed access.  Services are often bundled with telephone and television cable.

The user at home or in the office	connects . . .	to the Internet Service Provider (e.g. ATT, Comcast, RCN, Sprint, etc.) which	sends	the message to Internet connected receiver.

Free ISPs have rapidly disappeared! (history)
United Online, Inc. (Nasdaq: UNTD) is a leading provider of value-priced Internet access through its NetZero, Juno and BlueLight Internet consumer brands. The company’s services are offered at less than half the standard prices of its major competitors and are available in more than 5,000 cities across the United States and in Canada. United Online is headquartered in Westlake Village, California, with offices in New York City, San Francisco and Hyderabad, India. More info:http://www.unitedonline.net/

Fee (as in pay for it) ISPS offer you connection to the Internet for a charge (~$20 per month) and may include a few other features:

• an email account POP with webmail (with one or more user names)
• server space (for storing files or posting web pages)
• some offer high speed Internet connection (DSL, aDSL, sDSL,Cable Modem)
• most offer portal pages that you can tailor to contain the information that you want to see and access.
• some, such as AOL, offer an "environment" in which the user does not even have to leave the AOL community to find pages on weather, sports, entertainment, etc., all of which is maintained by AOL.
• others offer SPAM filters, Popup Blockers
• a few offer 24/7 suppport

Compare others: 

• The Definitive Internet Service Buyer's Guide: http://www.thelist.com/ (for area code 650)
• Low Cost Cheap Dial-up ISPs: http://isp1.us/dial-up/
• Great ISP Deals.  http://www.great-isp-deals.com/pick_isps/

Local Providers

INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS
	http:www.att.com
	http://www.comcast.net/
	http://www.sprint.com

If you do not have Internet access at home, you can use your campus Learning Center which is adjacent to your campus library.

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