Can someone explain to me very simply put what Broadband is and its advantages over dial-up.?

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I would also like to know how exactly one gets connected to the internet, as in the technical side of things. Ok, I have a landline, a PC and a modem but how EXACTLY does the connection work? And what is this about wireless connections? Someone explain please.

Ok so does broadband use phone lines too? And are wireless connections exclusive to cellphones and laptops only? Once again, reeeeeal simple explainations please. Thanks.

Answer 1

A broadband internet connection is, simply put, fast internet connection. DSL is one type of broadband connection. Like dialup, also journeys through telephone wires, but it takes up a totally different "band" or portion of the telephone wires that allows for very fast "data-only" connection.

Dialup is a type of narrowband connection and is limited in how fast it can go. Information travels along the "voice" part of the telephone line, that's why you hear weird sounds when you lift up your phone's handset. The reason why it's limited is because the "voice" part of your telephone wires can carry information up to a certain level.

A modem is a device that translates the signal that travels through the lines into something that your computer can understand and vice versa. A broadband modem and a dialup modem are different devices, so you can't use them interchangeably.

Finally, a wireless connection is a feature of a broadband modem (or a device attached to it) that allows you to surf the Internet free of wires. Insted of having a wire connecting your modem and computer, your broadband modem broadcasts the signal wirelessly and the wireless card attached or built inside your computer "captures" the signals. It's a convenient thing to have when you have a laptop and you want to surf the Internet from another room. Some coffee shops also allow you to surf the Internet with your laptop or a similar device like a Palm Pilot or PDA.

Answer 2

Ok, broad band is a high speed constant connection to the internet, which you pay for by the month on a plan, most plans have a set download quota, you don't pay by the minute like dial up, the first thing you will notice is the speed of connection and the fact that if you use adsl then you can use your telephone while you are on the internet, Imagine going on a chat room for 3 or more hours or downloading a large pdf document or ebook, on dial up it could take hours and cost you a fortune, on broadband, depending on where you live, this could only take a few minutes.
wireless is just a way of connecting to the internet that has a wireless router and allows you to have computers anywhere in the house without having all them messy cables cluttering up the place.

as for getting connected, there are quite a few well known providors, Yahoo being one of them, available to you, who they are will depend on which country you are in, usualy you local telephone company Is a broadband internet provider, shop around, there are plenty out there.

Yes broad band can use phone lines, that is what ADSL is.
and no wireless is not restricted to laptops, you can use it with normal desktop pc's.

Answer 3

SPEED, Dial up is less than 56kbs (kilo (1000) BITS per second) High Speed should be 1500 kbs (1,500,000) or higher, if you believe the marketing hype.

It really doesn't matter HOW it works, as long as it works!!!

Depending on where you live, you can probably choose between DSL (uses a phone line) or Cable (like cable TV). If you live in a rural area, you may only have Dial up OR Satellite, which is faster, but nowhere near as fast as DSL or Cable.

Ask your local High-speed Internet Service Provider about Wireless availability AND how it works. They're in the Yellow Pages.

Answer 4

In short, broadband internect access is much faster, always on and permits you to have phone call simultaneously with the internet connection.

There are many flavours.

xDSL (ADSL, HDSL, VDSL) tha uses the conventional phone lines to transmit data without interfering with the phone calls.

Cable modem uses your cable tv infrastructure to transmit data over the cable also without interfering with the tv images. Since it uses the cable, not your phone line, it can't interfere with phone calls either.

To connect you computer to ADSL you'll need a adsl modem/router. The simplest ones alows only one computer to be connected. New models of adsl modens have a router embeded so you can share your connection with more than one computer at home/office. Very similar things can be used with cablemodens as well. There are routers that can be connected either to a adsl mode or a cablemodem like de the Dlink DI-524.

This particular model also has wifi capabilities. It allows you to connect a number of computer wirelessly to your internet connection. This is a very strong trend among home users. Nobody wants to have blue ethernet UTP cables spread all over the furniture.

Answer 5

Since cash does not look to be a enormous predicament for you - BROADBAND!!!! Definitely! I are living within the US, & do not know what charges are like within the UK, however until the change in rate is astronomical, it's far more than made up in phrases of the rate of it slow whilst looking ahead to matters to load w/ dial-up.... In phrases downloading & pages loading, broadband is much, approach quicker, certainly for the ones pages that experience plenty of pictures & different matters on them. Some pages you will not also be in a position to peer whilst making use of dial-up, b/c the science used on the ones pages runs such a lot quicker than a dial-up connection can manage. And a few matters, like pix, can take see you later to load w/ dial-up, you can also good come to a decision it isn't valued at it to attend round to peer them. Plus, in the event you use a land line cellphone, w/ broadband you'll be able to be on the web & the cellphone whilst, while w/ dial-up you could want a moment land line to do each whilst.

Answer 6

Broad band is a high speed Internet connection i.e. Min 512Kilo bits per hour

Dial-up is 56 or less kilo bits per hour.

Downloads are faster in broadband unlike dial-up that takes days.

Wireless is like a cellphone connection i.e. no wire is required you just have to install a wireless card and use it. Wireless is advisable for Laptops and not Desktops i.e. PC at your home.