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4 weeks ago | 
allconnect.com | Robin Layton
Comcast, the parent company of internet, TV and phone service provider Xfinity, is offering a five-year price lock option to new customers. The 5-Year Price Guarantee plans start at $55.00/mo. for 400 Mbps. Customers who pick a price guarantee plan won’t need to worry about contracts and can cancel anytime. They are also eligible to receive one unlimited Xfinity Mobile line at no cost for one year. Additional lines can be added for $20.00/mo.
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1 month ago | 
allconnect.com | Robin Layton
The internet has increasingly been an essential part of life for many people, but that digital surge hasn’t swept up everyone equally. According to the Pew Research Center, Americans with disabilities are three times more likely than those without a disability to say they never go online. While the benefits of internet use can be profound for people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), there are also some risks.
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2 months ago | 
allconnect.com | Robin Layton
There’s almost nothing more irritating than your technology not functioning when you need it to. On a rainy day when you can’t play outside, you might try to stream movies, but sometimes your connection seems just as bogged down by the poor weather as you are. Could the mist be clogging up cyberspace? Is the snow freezing your system’s circuits? Does weather affect internet speeds?
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2 months ago | 
allconnect.com | Robin Layton
The lack of fast internet – or any internet at all – in rural America is certainly not a new concern, but it is a worrisome and valid topic for the 14 million households and businesses affected, the federal government, internet service providers and many more stakeholders. Fortunately, some positive movement exists to ease the lack of rural broadband availability. On Sept.
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2 months ago | 
allconnect.com | Robin Layton
AT&T announced its new fixed wireless home internet service this week, delivered over the AT&T 5G wireless network. AT&T Internet Air is the internet service provider’s version of the highly-successful T-Mobile 5G Home Internet and Verizon 5G Home Internet plans. AT&T’s President of Broadband and Connectivity Initiatives Erin Scarborough shared, “We’ve already rolled out AT&T Internet Air to existing copper-based customers with great success.
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2 months ago | 
allconnect.com | Robin Layton
If you spend any time at all connected to the internet, whether via a computer or a mobile device, you’ll have heard of 5G. This fifth-generation cellular wireless technology allows you to use your cell phone and have an internet connection, all from the same tower. The hope for 5G tech is that it will not only revolutionize tech, medical and scientific industries but also help to cheaply connect more rural households to the internet that fiber or cable cannot reach.
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2 months ago | 
allconnect.com | Robin Layton
5G is the fifth-generation wireless cellular technology that allows you to connect your calls and texts on your cell phone when your device is within your provider’s network and tower radius. It’s also used as a fixed wireless broadband connection called 5G home internet, with speeds up to 1,000 Mbps. It can get confusing, especially if you have a provider for your 5G mobile network and a 5G home internet service with another or even the same provider.
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2 months ago | 
allconnect.com | Robin Layton
Traveling to a new country for a short vacation can be stressful enough, but as someone studying long-term in an unfamiliar country, you can face extra challenges, especially when trying to connect to the internet. Over a million international students studied in the U.S. during the 2022/23 school year. With internet-based classes and exercises, it’s nearly impossible to take a college course without having internet access.
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2 months ago | 
allconnect.com | Robin Layton
With the annual April 15 tax deadline fast approaching, you may be scrambling to find as many deductions as possible to lower your tax liability. You use the internet to work from home, so that must be a deductible expense, right? Not so fast. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) distinguishes between working from home and running a business from your home. One is deductible, the other is not. If you work remotely for an employer, meaning you receive a Form W-2, you cannot deduct your internet bill.
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2 months ago | 
allconnect.com | Robin Layton
If you’re seeing a 503 service unavailable error message, it can have you scratching your head wondering what you’ve encountered. It even feels somewhat generic because, after all, what does “service unavailable” really mean? The upside is it’s only temporary, so you can pick up where you left off relatively soon. When a server is overloaded or down for maintenance, you’ll likely get a 503 service unavailable error. It’s just one of many HTTP status codes.
