Broadband Internet?

Question

For now im using dial up connection with my PC and with a modem istalled but how about BROADBAND internet? Is modem still be used for broadband internet or what? pls help. thnx in advance. ;)

You know I dont want a dial up connection because everytime I dial it says " The modem not configured properly". I want broadband ( online always) and not to dial a phone or what but still need a modem on broadband? ( my modem is D-link).

Answer 1

No, a dial-up modem is not used but a DSL or Cable modem is required. This is usually provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) or needs to be bought seperatly. The modem connects to your PC through a USB or an Ethernet connection, so USB 2.0 ports are required (for high speed) or an Ethernet card. Ethernet connection is more common. I encourage you to make the transition to broadband ASAP. You won't go back to dialup once you leave it behind. Good luck!

Answer 2

Depending on your provider you can apply for what is considered high-speed dial-up. This would be your alternative if you wish to keep your current modem. How it works is that your provider has a computer that pre-fetches the websites you want and compresses the data so that load up time appears faster. Unfortunately that doesn't apply to big pictures or video files. If you were to change to broadband services such as Cable or DSL, you'd need a Cable / DSL modem and a USB or an Ethernet connection on your computer in order to connect to the Cable / DSL modem. You can have a Cable / DSL and dial-up modem coexist on the same computer without removing on or the other in most cases. For example, say that you are traveling with a laptop and you happen to need Internet access and you have no access to broadband or wireless. You can configure your browser to detect your settings and use dial-up when your broadband connection is unavailable and revert back to broadband when a such a connection is available.

Hope this helps

Answer 3

The answer is: sort of! It all depends what you mean by 'modem.

First, a wee bit of background. A traditional modem, used to connect to an analogue 'dial-up' service, MODulates and DEmodulates a tone to send and recieve data (hence the name, 'mo-dem'. These days, its usually an external device that connects to a PC or Mac with a usb or serial connection. It can send and recieve to a theoretical limit of 56 Kbps (or 'kilo bits per second', so 56 thousand bits per second.) You can often hear these tones when a machine dials to the internet over an analogue connection; it will sound like a high-pitched screeching or squeaking.

'Broadband' works in a totally different way. (I wont bore you with the details.) We generally are talking about ADSL or cable when we mean broaband, and it is worth noting that these again work in differnent ways to each other to produce the same effect: a high-speed network (or internet) connection.

Broadband, like analogue, still needs a device to allow your computer to connect to the service. Generally, whoever you take your contract out with will supply the device, cables, driver and installation software, and hopefully some instructions to get you going. Normally, the device connects to the PC via a spare USB connection.

Although the device they send out to use is commonly called a 'modem', it actually (for the reasons I gave you at the start) isnt a modem, in that it doesnt need to modulate and demodulate tones to send a signal. You wont hear any screeching because the device doesn't use them.

However: in the same way that, when we talk about a 'Hoover' we usually mean a vacuum cleaner, the term 'Broadband modem' has become the common way to refer to these devices: hence the 'sort of' answer.

Hope this helps-

regards,

Gary

Answer 4

No ... the modem inside your PC does not get used when you are connecting to broadband Internet. You will need to make sure you have a NIC (Network Interface Card) installed in your PC. If you do not .. you can buy one (they are like $15 + depending on the model) I prefer D-Link or Linksys. Broadband does require a modem, but it is (99%) of the time provided by the ISP and it is usually an EXTERNAL (outside of the PC) DEVICE.

hope this helps ...

Answer 5

Broadband, whether DSL, cable or satellite, still requires a modem to make the connection but certainly not the one you have. Most companies will supply the modem as a "loaner" to use the service at no charge.

Answer 6

Some types of high speed internet do not require a modem. Where I live there is a service called DigitalPath where the signal is transmitted by radio. A small antenna is placed on the roof and is connected to the ethernet port on the computer.

Answer 7

your broadband provider will provide you with a cable or DSL modem, but it is a seperate piece of hardware that is installed externally. In order to make your computer broadband ready, you will have to install a network card, if you don't have one installed already.

I use this one mostly:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833105123

Answer 8

your PC will require a LAN or local area network card you may also need a separate dsl router generally supplied by the isp