Broadband

Broadband options in the Davis area:

Locals:

• Cal.NET (reviews) is a DSL provider with special connections at some apartment complexes.
  

• Instaconnect (reviews?) provides broadband via Wifi. Operated by Aria Communications.
  

• Omsoft (reviews) and Davis Community Network provide DSL
  

• ResNet is available to UC Davis-operated housing only.
  

• 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:

• Sonic.net (reviews), based in Santa Rosa, provide their highly-regarded DSL internet service in this area.
  

• DSLExtreme (reviews), based in Los Angeles County, provides DSL service in this area
  

• Garlic.com (reviews) (also known as South Valley Internet), based in San Martin, CA, provides DSL service in this area
  

• 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.:

• SpeakEasy (reviews), based in Seattle, WA, provides business-class DSL service in this area
  

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


• WaveBroadband provides cable internet up to 18Mb down for Winters and other Yolo County residents.

Mega-corporations:

• 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.
  

• Comcast provides cable internet service