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Top ISPs:
Who we tested

The data that Network World uses for its Top ISPs report is based on the performance of ISPs that subscribe to, or are tested by Visual Networks in their Visual Internet Benchmark Service. The following ISPs are currently included in our test.

For more information about the Visual Internet Benchmark Service, head to www.visualnetworks.com.

ISPs tested, December 2000
National Retail
AOL AT&T WorldNet CompuServe
EarthLink Juno Web MindSpring
MSN Prodigy Verizon-West (formerly GTE.net)
ZipLink  
Regional Retail
Ameritech BellSouth PacBell
RCN Qwest
Verizon-North
(covers NY, VT, NH, Maine, MA, CT & RI)
Verizon-South
(covers PA, NJ, DE, MD, WV, & VA)
Business to Business
AT&T GNS Concentric Genuity
ICG-NetAhead NaviPath PSI
McLeod USA (formerly Splitrock) UUNET UUNET (GridNet)

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