- 1. What is broadband?
- Term used for any kind of fast Internet access. Broadband is designed to give a business or residential user instant Internet access 24 hours a day. It's fast - generally 10-20 times faster than your existing dial-up modem. A typical dial-up modem operates at either 28.8 kbit/s or 56 kbit/s. .
6. What units are used to measure bandwidth?
2. What units are used to measure brandwith?
- Bandwith is used to measure the speed of the Internet and is measured in
- mega bits per second.
3. How much faster is broadband than dial up?Broadband is 4 to 26 times faster than Dial-up and your computer is always connected to the Internet, therefore it is seen to be a much better choice of internet than dial up.
4. What are the speeds that broadband operates at compared to dial up?- The speed of broadband internet is 200 kilobits per second (Kbps) whereas dialup internet access is typically limited to 58 kilobits per second.
5. What are some of the advantages of using a broadband connection to download something like a video compared to dial up?- Once you are using ADSL Broadband you'll be able to download music, work files, movie trailers, photos and fancy web pages in a flash rather than dial up. This is because broadband is able to transfer more data (200 kilobits) within a lesser time whereas dial up only has the capacity to transfer 58 kilobits per second.
