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CHART NOTES: Services are ranked by total number of negative and positive ratings, and in the case of a tie, alphabetically. All ratings reflect survey respondents' satisfaction with the given aspect of service. Source: Survey of 6463 PC World readers and PCWorld.com visitors from April 26 to May 10, 2007. FOOTNOTE:1 Rating reflects more than one connection type. We received insufficient responses to rate this ISP's connection offerings separately.