what is broadband and how does it change one use of the internet?
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Broadband Internet greatly improves the quality of your Internet experience. Web pages load quickly. Downloads are fast and easy. A broadband connection is "always on" meaning that you don't have to wait for the telephone to dial and connect. When your computer is on, the Internet is instantly available to you. With a broadband connection, the Internet becomes a much more valuable tool. If you can afford the extra cost, broadband Internet is sure to save your time.  \nGood luck!
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This is a high speed internet connection, usually through cable, dsl or wifi.\n\n"A transmission medium capable of supporting a wide range of frequencies, typically from audio up to video frequencies. It can carry multiple signals by dividing the total capacity of the medium into multiple, independent bandwidth channels, where each channel operates only on a specific range of frequencies."
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Internet\n\nThe vast collection of inter-connected networks that are connected using the TCP/IP protocols and that evolved from the ARPANET of the late 60's and early 70's. \nThe Internet connects tens of thousands of independent networks into a vast global internet and is probably the largest Wide Area Network in the world.\n\n\nIntranet \nA private network inside a company or organization that uses the same kinds of software that you would find on the public Internet, but that is only for internal use. Compare with extranet.
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Fair use is a tricky thing, it's what large companies use to limit "unlimited" services, (like broadband access in the UK. If i have 20 mbps BB and i down load 200 GB of matiriel a month British telecome or my BB provider will very quickley disconect me even though i pay for unlimited downlads. apparently me paying extra for a servie dosent actualy entitle me to use the internet or more importantly 'Bandwidth) any more than someone else p[aying far less for a lesser package.\n\nPersonaly i think its a sham which is why i have a direct microwave link up to my local drain.\n\nStil thats fair use, its unlimited until you use it and then it suddenly contravines a fair use policy and becomes Ldtd. A big round of applause for the MAN for screwing us over in another new and inventive way!
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WIFI: Short for ‘wireless fidelity’. A term for certain types of wireless local area networks (WLAN) that use specifications conforming to IEEE 802.11b. WiFi has gained acceptance in many environments as an alternative to a wired LAN. Many airports, hotels, and other services offer public access to WiFi networks so people can log onto the Internet and receive emails on the move. These locations are known as hotspots.\n\nBROADBAND: Broadband comes from the words "broad bandwidth" and is used to describe a high-capacity, two-way link between an end user and access network suppliers capable of supporting full-motion, interactive video applications.
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Cable is one of the two major broadband Internet connection options (with the other being DSL).\n\nWhen you are using a cable Internet connection, this is what it looks like:\n\nA cable connection is attached to your cable modem (this is a separate box that you must purchase yourself, or purchase through your cable company if they offer this service - they usually run between $50 and $100).\n\nA network cable (Ethernet cable) will run from the cable modem to the Network connection on your PC.\n\nThat's it!  It's fast, simple, reliable, and usually not very expensive.  Of course, you have to order the Internet service through your cable company, or your cable modem will have nothing to talk to.\n\nAlso, see the link below.\n\nBest of luck!
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If you have dial up, you are paying for an ISP, Voip service and a phone line?! Wouldn't it be cheaper to go with broadband and then get Voip?! \n\nShort answer: No. Just not enough bandwidth. If you live in an areas without broad band just get two phone lines and be done with it.
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if you plug it in, and it goes online, you're online. you don't install broadband, you just pay the subscription and surf away!
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no you cant its either broadband or a second line
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_internet\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leased_line
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In a nutshell the internet is a massive network of computers with the main players having servers holding stored data. When you download a video from a website it is like retrieving a video from your cd or harddrive except you are downloading it from someone else's cd or harddrive on their server.\n\nSeveral factors keep "things online" online. The server computer holding stored data, telephone or cable companies, and associated electronic gadgets. The server computer needs to on and connected to the internet, the telephone lines need to be open or cable internet operating, and modems and nodes and all the other gadgets need to be in good working order.\n\nThat's it in a nutshell!
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Well, first u need a PC.\n\nhahahaha.\n\nThen of course, you have to select between 2 basic types of internet connection:\n> Broadband\n> Dial - up.\n\nFor a broadband, u need at least 256MB RAM, and a LAN Card. The cable is insrted into the LAN Card, so basically, if you have two computers, only one can have broadband unless you have a router. The speed of the internet is up to you, 256Kbps is not bad, but if u r an online gamer, I suggest 1000kbps.\n\nThe Dial - up connection requires a Modem Card, something almost all PCs have. U connect the phone line into this card, and you will probably get around on 28 - 56kbps. Not good for gaming, but considerable for reading Emails. Also, you need at least 256MB of RAM.\n\nI hope I answered your question.
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Broadband over Power Line, an emerging technology that utilizes existing medium voltage to transport data at broadband speeds.
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bandwidth\n1. The difference between the highest and lowest frequencies that an analog communications system can pass as measured in Hertz (Hz) or cycles per second. For example, a telephone accommodates a bandwidth of 3,000 Hz: the difference between the lowest (300 Hz) and highest (3,300 Hz) frequencies it can carry. 2. The data transfer capacity, or speed of transmission, of a digital communications system as measured in bits per second (bps).\n\nBTW or btw\n Acronym for by the way. An expression often used to preface remarks in e-mail and Internet newsgroup articles\n\ncyberpunk\n 1. A genre of near-future science fiction in which conflict and action take place in virtual-reality environments maintained on global computer networks in a worldwide culture of dystopian alienation. The prototypical cyberpunk novel is William Gibson's Neuromancer (1982). 2. A category of popular culture that resembles the ethos of cyberpunk fiction. 3. A person or fictional character who resembles the heroes of cyberpunk fiction.\n\nfirewall\nA security system intended to protect an organization's network against external threats, such as hackers, coming from another network, such as the Internet. Usually a combination of hardware and software, a firewall prevents computers in the organization's network from communicating directly with computers external to the network and vice versa. Instead, all communication is routed through a proxy server outside of the organization's network, and the proxy server decides whether it is safe to let a particular message or file pass through to the organization's network.\n\nflame1\nAn abusive or personally insulting e-mail message or newsgroup posting.\n\nHTTP\n Acronym for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. the protocol used to carry requests from a browser to a Web server and to transport pages from Web servers back to the requesting browser. Although HTTP is almost universally used on the Web, it is not an especially secure protocol.\n\ninternet\n Short for internetwork. A set of computer networks that may be dissimilar and are joined together by means of gateways that handle data transfer and conversion of messages from the sending networks' protocols to those of the receiving network.\n\nInternet\nThe worldwide collection of networks and gateways that use the TCP/IP suite of protocols to communicate with one another. At the heart of the Internet is a backbone of high-speed data communication lines between major nodes or host computers, consisting of thousands of commercial, government, educational, and other computer systems, that route data and messages. One or more Internet nodes can go off line without endangering the Internet as a whole or causing communications on the Internet to stop, because no single computer or network controls it. The genesis of the Internet was a decentralized network called ARPANET created by the Department of Defense in 1969 to facilitate communications in the event of a nuclear attack. Eventually other networks, including BITNET, Usenet, UUCP, and NSFnet, were connected to ARPANET. Currently, the Internet offers a range of services to users, such as FTP, e-mail, the World Wide Web, Usenet news, Gopher, IRC, telnet, and others. Also called the Net. \n\nintranet\n A private network based on Internet protocols such as TCP/IP but designed for information management within a company or organization. Its uses include such services as document distribution, software distribution, access to databases, and training. An intranet is so called because it looks like a World Wide Web site and is based on the same technologies, yet is strictly internal to the organization and is not connected to the Internet proper. Some internets also offer access to the Internet, but such connections are directed through a firewall that protects the internal network from the external Web. \n\nISP\nAcronym for Internet service provider. A business that supplies Internet connectivity se
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After any kind of broadband, dial-up is going to PAINFULLY slow.  Web sites are adding more & more graphics all the time, not to mention the time it takes to load all the adds.  So it will only get worse.
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Comcast is a company, broadband is a type of internet (and other things) connection.\n\nIf you get your internet through Comcast cable, you will get broadband. Its the same thing.
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The Internet is revolutionizing and enhancing the way we as humans communicate, both locally and around the globe. Simply put, the Internet is a network of linked computers allowing participants to share information on those computers. You should want to be a part of it because the Internet literally puts a world of information and a potential worldwide audience at your fingertips.\n\n Internet History: The Internet's roots can be traced to the 1950s with the launch of Sputnik, the ensuing space race, the Cold War and the development of ARPAnet (Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), but it really took off in the 1980s when the National Science Foundation used ARPAnet to link its five regional supercomputer centers. From there evolved a high-speed backbone of Internet access for many other types of networks, universities, institutions, bulletin board systems and commercial online services. The end of the decade saw the emergence of the World Wide Web, which heralded a platform-independent means of communication enhanced with a pleasant and relatively easy-to-use graphical interface. Here is a link to an excellent Internet timeline at PBS Online.\n\n Internet Activity: The information superhighway is literally buzzing with activity as Internet pipelines pump out all manner of files, movies, sounds, programs, video, e-mail, live chat, you name it. Yet amid all this activity there are always two key players in every transaction: a server and a client.\n\nServers are computers with a 24-hour Internet connection that provide access to their files and programs. These can be but are not limited to educational institutions, commercial companies, organizations, government or military organizations, Internet access providers and various other computer networks of all sizes. \n\nClients are software programs (and the people on remote computers using the software!) used to access files on a server (typically, a Web browsing program such as Netscape Navigator or an e-mail program such as Eudora). \nServers are typically located and organized by IP address and domain.\n\nAn IP address (IP stands for Internet Protocol) is a specific set of numbers referring to a server's exact location on a network. Most domains have their own IP address, for instance, 192.41.20.33 is the IP address of my server at webcurrent.com. You can type those numbers in to get there, but the domain is easier to remember. An IP address also leaves your fingerprints wherever you "surf" on the net. Each modem connection typically is designated a specific IP address at Internet providers (this number typically changes dynamically as users log in), so you never really surf the net anonymously. You can be traced to a point. \nA domain is part of the server's official name on the network, an alias for the less descriptive IP numbers. Domains are organized by type of organization (a three-letter suffix) and by country (a two-letter suffix which defaults to the U.S. if no suffix is specified). You can tell a lot about a server by looking at its domain name. \nHere are some typical organizational suffixes: com=commercial, edu=educational, gov=government, int=international, mil=military, net=network, org=organization. \nHere are some country codes: au=Australia, at=Austria, be=Belgium, br=-Brazil, dk=Denmark, jp=Japan, nz=New Zealand, ru=Russian Federation, uk=United Kingdom, ch=Switzerland. \n\nPrivacy. Don't post or write anything you wouldn't mind anyone else seeing. Remember your information is not secure nor is your e-mail necessarily private. It's supposed to be, but that isn't always the case. Also, never EVER send your credit card number via email. If you're ordering something online, be sure the web page you are entering data into is served from a secure server (https://... more on this in the next section). Helpful links: \n\nSecurity. To enhance security, many networks have encrypted, secure transmission met