High Speed Internet Providers Reviewed

It seems like there are so many big businesses that make enormous amounts of money and only hold on to their profits with greed. Charter Internet is of great contrast to this comment. In fact Charter Internet recently held an online auction open to the public. As people auctioned off items and paid their dues, large profits were made. However instead of Charter Internet keeping all the money for themselves, they donated all profits from the auction to the Habitat for Humanity. This is a great display of character and integrity within the company which is seldom replicated throughout the business world. Charter Internet not only provides high speed internet service, but also high speed assistance to charities in need.

In a recent press release, Verizon Internet Service announced they renewed their deal to utilize Yahoo’s internet portal as one of the starting pages for their wired service. In fact Verizon will offer their portal as the first choice, even above MSN and their own interfaces. I’ve never been a fan of these interfaces and prefer a customized Google start page, but if you are used to everything Yahoo, then you will feel right at home.

Where the real battle is taking place is on the mobile front. Verizon has not finalized a deal to date and is in talks Google. When talking about a mobile portal, functionality is the most important factor to consider. Patience runs thin when you have problems navigating through a mobile browser and the quicker you can reach the places you want the more people will stick with that particular service.

Some of our recent observations have found that Comcast Specials are taking over the Cable high speed internet market. We are starting to see less and less advertising on the Time Warner Cable side with only a bunch of ad sense scattered over the net. This hardly helps the internet community make informed decisions about service providers.  so for those that are abandoning your dial-up service, the best advice we can give you is to make sure you look through all the features each high speed internet service provider has to offer. Comcast for instance has some great features including things like Mcaffee Security Suite. They also have excellent parental controls that will enhance security on your home computer if you have children. So be sure to compare apples to apples and features to features as we have done. This will help you get the most out of your dollar.

So for part two I will be discussing some of the measures you can take to safeguard your children by configuring your browser. There are several browsers out there, and these are easily downloadable by you kid if you have not setup the proper user accounts. Be sure to not allow the installation of new programs by non administrator users. See previous blog post for more details. Now for the details.

Many high speed internet providers like Comcast DSL or Time Warner offer free parental controls so it is a good idea to make sure those are configured as well as your browser settings to get maximum protection. We’ll be using internet explorer for the purpose of this example. But settings are similar for the other major browsers as well.

Click on the Tools menu on your browser and select internet options. There are several section you can configure and I recommend you get familiar with all of the terminology. But for a quick start you would select the Security tab. Here you can configure the level of security for several different internet zones. Be sure to set it at a level that makes sense for your kids use. You can also set the list of restricted sites in this section.

After configuring the security tab you can select the Privacy tab which primarily controls cookies from being placed on your computer from unwanted sites and also controls pop-ups. The last thing you want is for unwanted ads and images popping up while your kid is surfing the net.

Finally the Content tab. You will want to enable the content advisor feature. Here you can actually choose what users are allowed to see in certain predefined categories. You can block a great number of sites by configuring these settings as well as restricting viewing sites that have no rating. In other words if it is a malicious site, and they did not get approval for their content, and do not have a rating, it will automatically block that particular site.

Take action now and tune in for part 3 — Making sure your high speed internet service providers software is protecting your children & how to use it.

Alright. The first review on the fine print of your favorite ISP’s is now posted in the Pages section. I was pretty impressed with the findings and feel AT&T DSL Specials is going to lead the pack with their offers & variety of plans. Overall, they have well rounded plans that include all the major functionality you would expect & a little more.

Welcome to the High Speed Internet Providers resource blog. The goal is simple – Assist consumers in all aspects of their ISP’s. Whether you are looking to find a high speed internet provider for the first time, looking for the latest offers, or staying on top of some important information about different providers, you have found the right place.

We plan to cover the basic differences between the major high speed internet providers as well as specific topics of interest like parental controls, the fine print in contracts and the latest online only promotions that really stand out.

For most, this blog may seem simplistic. But if you are new to the world of high speed internet, we plan on providing information in plain English. And if you don’t understand terminology or would like to know more about any topic related to high speed internet, simply post a comment or send us an inquiry through the about us page on the parent site: High Speed Internet Providers.

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