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Great Broadband Internet Facts

By Brianuna Hedderun

Most people in the modern civilized world will have heard of Broadband and will know that it relates to the internet. But how many of you I wonder actually know what broadband means, and what it does? In basic terms broadband refers to the way that you connect up to the internet. When the internet first burst upon the public domain, we all used dial up technology, which meant that we connected our computers to the web via an ordinary telephone line. Broadband however uses a different technology than dial up, and is much faster.

With broadband, you no longer have to have a telephone line, and some people utilize their satellite TV systems instead. The majority of people do still use their telephone lines, alongside which an ISDN line is routed, and this drastically increases the capacity and allows you to run your internet, and your telephone service side by side over the same telephone line vie a router or splitter.

Broadband is very much faster than dial up, and this is exactly what has made it so popular. Because of this increased speed it has opened up a whole new world of possibilities, such as downloading music files and even movies. It is something called bandwidth that enables this faster speed. If you picture a water pipe, you can understand that the bigger the diameter of the pipe, the more water it will allow passing through. Broadband operates on the same principle. The bigger the broadband capacity, (normally referred to in mega bytes), the more "traffic" (electronic data) it will allow through.

In essence, broadband gives you the facility to surf the net so much quicker. Most companies sell their services by extolling the amount of bandwidth they provide. But they also play down the fact that the more people that are using the service, the slower it will be, and also, in some countries, the farther your connection point is away from the closest exchange, the slower the service can be.

Broadband services are usually oversold on the principle that that not everybody will want to surf the net at the same time, and in the great majority of instances this is true. Slowdowns because of heavy traffic are usually few and far between.

Many of the people that use the broadband systems do so just to surf for information or products. This does not use much space in the bandwidth. The difference between someone just performing normal search functions and someone that is downloading movies or downloading music is probably three or more fold.

Broadband has totally changed what we use the internet for today. With the old dial up system, downloading music or movie files would have taken hours; today, using broadband, it takes only seconds.

Yes, it is true that dial up is mostly free (just paying for the cost of the calls), but most people are more than happy to pay a little more money and receive a far superior service.

If you have not yet experienced the difference that a broadband internet connection can give you, be warned. You will not ever consider going back to dial up. The extra money each month will be very worth it.

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