Broadband options in the Davis area:
Locals:
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Cal.NET (
reviews) is a DSL provider with special connections at some apartment complexes.
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Instaconnect (reviews?) provides broadband via Wifi. Operated by Aria Communications.
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Omsoft (
reviews) and Davis Community Network provide DSL
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Winters Broadband (reviews?) is a locally-owned-and-operated Wifi provider with service in Winters and right up to the edge of Davis
Not local to Davis, but local to California:
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Sonic.net (
reviews), based in Santa Rosa, provide their highly-regarded DSL internet service in this area.
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DSLExtreme (
reviews), based in Los Angeles County, provides DSL service in this area
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Garlic.com (
reviews) (also known as South Valley Internet), based in San Martin, CA, provides DSL service in this area
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Raw Bandwidth (
reviews), based in San Bruno, CA, provides DSL service in this area
Not local to California, but local to the Western U.S.:
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SpeakEasy (
reviews), based in Seattle, WA, provides business-class DSL service in this area
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WaveBroadband provides cable internet up to 18Mb down for Winters and other Yolo County residents.
Warning! A local business recently had a very bad experience with Speakeasy. See the
posting at Google Groups, or for background see the
review at DSLReports.com. —GrahamFreeman
Mega-corporations:
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Pac Bell, no I mean SBC, no I mean AT&T (
reviews) provides bargain-basement DSL internet service in cooperation with Yahoo
and the NSA. However, they are locally the physical provider of dsl (the wires), so for many problems they may have a better ability to troubleshoot. On the other hand they don't provide services such as a shell server.
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Comcast provides cable internet service


