what is the difference between broadband and internet?

Question

I know this may sound silly to most of you but i am an oldie and new to this

Answer 1

Imagine an infrastructure that links, say a number (millions) of reservoir with large pipes connecting them together in a grid. If you want to tap into it and get water, you could do it by carrying a bucket to a reservoir and back to your home, doing it ever so slowly. Then there are others who have a small pipe to pipe it to them. They have to wait a long time to fill their baths. Then there are those who have the advantage of large bore pipes that deliver millions of gallons at a time to their homes.
For the infrastructure of reservoirs, read the internet, and for the small pipes, read dial-up. Those with the large bore pipes have broadband. They can download from the websites (reservoirs) large volume of data at high speeds (well, not so high in the UK cf other countries).

Answer 2

The internet is like the river of knowledge and there is more than one way of channeling some of it off to your pc. One way is dial up which means connecting your pc to the telephone line and making your pc dial a phone number to gain access, you need the internet service provider to tell you the phone number. The PC then uses a machine language to contact the internet and upload or download information. Dial up can be very slow and expensive. Then there is broadband which also connects to the internet either from a special modem going through the phone line or a special modem going through a cable that has been connected to your house by a cable company. IT is called broadband because the amount of data sent and recieved has a much broader band to travel through than the ordinary dial up connection and so can carry much greater amounts more quickly.

Answer 3

Nothing. Broadband IS a type of internet connection.

Answer 4

Hi, welcome aboard. There's no such thing as a silly question, if you want to know you need to ask, in my (aged) opinion. Actually I find it interesting to see some of the pedantic replies from some of our clearly younger members, you can tell those regurgitating half-understood rubbish!

Like lots of people have already said, the internet is the network connecting computers around the world (like the telephone system perhaps), whereas broadband is just one of the several ways of connecting to the aforesaid internet (like your own phone line, to stretch the analogy too far).

It's just a bit faster and "always on", compared with dial-up which effectively makes a call on your phone-line and prevents you making calls at the same time.

Answer 5

The internet is a very large network of computers that share and demand information with and from each other. The network is global and connected via telecommunications networks. When you are logged onto the internet, you become part of that network.

Broadband is one of the many ways you can connect to the internet. The term "broadband" generally describes the higher speed service that is offered by Internet Service Providers (ISPs). It refers to the bandwidth offered (bandwidth being the amount of data able to be transmitted per second). As the bandwidth is larger (hence broader) than normal dial-up internet connection (old fashioned connection using dial-up modems that literally dials up the ISP server on the phone line), the service is called "broadband".

There are different types of broadband connections, from ADSL to SDSL to cable broadband, but they're just technical specifications that define how that faster service is achieved. For instance, ADSL (the broadband service most people are subscribing to, like with BT broadband, Tiscali, etc.) has a faster download speed (speed at which your home computer can receive information) than upload speed (speed at which your home computer can send information back up through the network). This is why ADSL (which stands for Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) is suited to most home users as they download more data than they upload. On the other hand SDSL (Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line) allows downloads and uploads at the same speed which is more suited to businesses that need to be able to send out lots of information onto the network.

Answer 6

The Internet is an infrastructure of computers and connections that allow communication between computers.
On the Internet, you can use software called the World Wide Web to browse websites, share files, etc.
Broadband is a fast connection to the Internet available from an Internet Service Provider. It is much faster than dial-up connection, which was the old way of connecting.

Answer 7

Hi

No question is silly ... it is natural to ask . Internet is connecting peripherials or people round the world/ Information Technology networking. Broadband is a later version of modem where it covers a broader wavelenghts and enhancement in speed

Lee

Answer 8

Broadband is a high capacity line over which you can transmit data as opposed to for example modem connection where you are limited to 56Kbit/s.
Internet is a network of computers throughout the world exchanging files.

Answer 9

broadband is a way of connecting to the internet

simple really know what you mean about sounding silly but if you dont ask you dont find out what is silly to some is easy to others enjoy your day

Answer 10

Broadband is a type of allocated bandwidth that allows for navigating the Internet at faster than dialup-connection type speeds.

Broadband can either be a DSL or Cable type connection. Cable is typically faster than DSL.