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DATA MINE Oct. 19, 1999 And the Winner for Best Internet Access Is... Which Internet service provider gives the best service? Now there's a quantitative way to measure performance. Inverse Network Technology makes some 250,000 calls to ISPs across the country each month to test how often and how well they work. The following rankings are based on how often calls to the ISP fail because of a busy signal, a modem problem, no answer, or a login failure. To receive an A+, an ISP has to have an average call success rate of at least 95% in its worst performing city. For an A, it must have an average call success rate of at least 80%. Inverse does not release figures for ISPs that get less than a B. The Best Connections A+ A B AirTouch Fastnet America Online Ameritech CWI Compuserve AT&T Netcom MindSpring Bell Atlantic Prodigy SNET BellSouth Splitrock US West Concentric     EarthLink     GTE     MSN     PacBell     PSI Net     RCN     SBIS     UUNet     DATA: Inverse Network Technology _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ BACK TO TOP					MORE NUGGETS The Mother Lode Collected nuggets from Data Mine