Major ISPs
• Comcast: »www.comcast.com provides cable for most of the bay area. Digital Cable/Cable modems are available pretty much everywhere except a few places in the old part of SF.
• SBC: »www.sbc.com is the major telco phone company in the area.
• Verizon: »www.verizon.com has a foothold in some parts of the east bay.
Local ISPs
• Sonic.net: »www.sonic.net has been around a long time and is based in Santa Rosa. Over the years they have spread to cover a good part of the bay area with dialup and DSL coverage (via SBC). They also run wireless in some parts of Santa Rosa. Their pricing is *very* competitive with SBC.
• Covad Wireless »www.covadwireless.com (owned by Covad -- used to be NextWeb) seems to cater to small business and up. However, there are several residential (power)users as well. They have 1mbps symmetric for $200/month. There are also slower & faster plans (down to 384, up to 10+mbps).
Wireless ISPs
• MetroFi: »www.metrofi.com has gotten quite a bit of press recently, for they now provide free (ad-supported) wifi access within the cities of Cupertino, Sunnyvale and Santa Clara.
• Etheric Networks: »www.etheric.net provides point-to-point wireless internet to a good portion of the south bay. Their pricing is a bit expensive but the service works great. Very little latency compared to satellite.
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