Verizon DSL – A company you can rely on.
With Internet users going for image uploading, downloading, streaming audio and video, chat rooms, blogging, etc, Internet speeds of less than 512 Kbps just would not cut it anymore, not unless you want to die of boredom waiting for that page to load. Plus, dial-up ties up the phone line, something that can be remedied with a good broadband package.Of course if you are more for sites that have text-only options, or are just text-only, then you don’t have a problem. However, for many users, faster is better. Fortunately, DSL is widely available and competition has driven the price down, as has happened for many Web-based businesses, and they even throw in the modem for free. What remains to be considered is the quality of the service?
There are many, many DSL service providers to choose from, and sometimes if price is the priority, many users will make do with slower broadband, ranging from 128 to 384 Kbps, which makes your typical 1 Mb download take about 10 minutes instead of the 2 minutes with 784 Kbps. It depends on how much time is valued, really.
Verizon DSL provides many packages, some offers available only online. A Starter Pan package is available for US$ 14.99 a month for 12 months, 30-day money back guarantee if the Verizon broadband is not as broad as advertised (768 Kbps). It comes with 9 e-mail accounts and 24-hour Verizon DSL support for those technical glitches.
For all you WiFi aficionados, the Verizon wireless broadband is available via the Power Plan which gives you a free wireless router and modem for US $ 19.99 a month for the first six months and it goes up to 3 Mbps, plus all the features of the Starter Plan. So you can toddle up and down the house (within 100 meters from the router) with your laptop and be connected all the time. For both the Starter Plan and Power Plan, there is a one-year contract agreement, so make sure you make use of that 30-day back guarantee.
Most important of all is the Verizon DSL service. There is an online help in case the phone line goes on the blink, but of course this is useless if your modem is the one with the problem, obviously. However, the support is 24/7 so you just need to call for any on-site technical help needed.