high speed internet

Taking forever to upload and download using your dial up 56K modem internet service? High speed internet via broadband is the answer.

Broadband gives you high speed internet. It gives you speed of up to 3Mbps. That is about 50 times faster than your regular 56K modem.

What's so good about high speed internet?

You get instant email, instant gratification. The web pages appear instantly instead of taking ages to download. It is such a joy to use. No more long waits, no twiddling of your thumbs while waiting for the pictures to appear.

With the dial up, when the phone rings, your internet get cut off. That is a major pain if you are halfway through a 2 hour download.

Also, if you want to use the phone, you'll have to log off from the internet.

Basically, the phone line serves one function at a time.

With dial-up, there is the hassle of trying to connect to the internet, getting busy signals, trying over and over again just to login to the internet. With high speed internet, no such problems. You are connected to the internet all the time. You can use it as and when you want without the hassle of trying your luck over and over again in order to connect to your internet provider.

Of course broadband has fixed charges which may seem high. If you surf a lot, it is worth it. With broad band, you don't even have to pay the telephone charges which can add up to a lot if you surf a lot.

To exploit your broadband, you may even share the broad band using 2 or more PCs. Imagine 2 or more people surfing at the same time. That maximises your broadband services.

high speed internet technologies

There are 2 main technologies where high speed internet is concerned. These are the ADSL and Cable broadband technologies.

ADSL is the Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line.

This technology makes use of the telephone line for your internet access.

ADSL operates at a different frequency from your regular phone calls.

Cable broadband comes from the cable TV operator. It uses the fibre optic network that supports TV as well as broadband.

Which high speed internet technology is better?

Everyone has telephone lines. ADSL can make use of your telephone lines for broadband service.

It depends on whether your house has cable services. Cable is not everywhere, whereas the infrastructure for telephone lines is everywhere.

ADSL can be affected by the distance of the telephone exchange. How far you are from the telephone exchange. As you move further from the telephone exchange, the ADSL signal weakens.

The bandwidth for ADSL is dedicated. Whereas for Cable broadband, everyone shares the same network.

For Cable broadband, the sharing of the network results in slower surfing at night as compared to the day time. No doubt, the speed potential is high. But at night, when everyone is home surfing the internet, sharing the same network, the surfing speed slows down noticeably.

The bottom line is not whether the cable broadband is shared. The key thing is whether the service provider wants to increase the bandwidth. If there are more users, they should increase the bandwidth.

ADSL allows you to surf the net outside your home. It allows remote capabilities. You can use the broadband anywhere as long as there is a phone line available.

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