Different Types of Internet Connections.
The Internet is a method of communication and a source of information that is becoming more popular among those who are interested in, and have the time to surf the information superhighway. The following essay will discuss the different ways of connecting your home or business to this superhighway of information. In my essay I will discuss 3 main types of internet connections: Cable, Digital Subscribers Line (DSL) and of course Dial-up.
An ISP, or Internet service provider, is a company that provides customers and businesses access to the Internet. There are two main technologies that are profoundly impacting the way people access the Internet: dial up which has the standard speed of 56kbs (kilobits per second), and the broadband area that boasts speeds up to 1.5Mbps (Megabits per second). When a customer or business chooses what kind of connection they want many factors should be looked at like, how fast do you need your downloading speed, how reliable, and how much money you are willing to pay.
Dial up is the least expensive access technology that's price is usually between 10 to 30 dollars. Unfortunately, dial up is also the least favorable of the choices. The reason for this is that dial up is an old technology that is being outdated because of broadband. Dial up caps out at 56kbs where as, broadband highly exceeds that limit. Thereby, making Dial up a decreasing choice for most customers. To use dial up you must be subscribed with an ISP and have a telephone modem. A modem is a device for transmitting digital data over telephone wires by modulating the data into an audio signal to send it and demodulating an audio signal into data to receive it. The user then places a call to their ISP, the modem at the ISP answers the call, and the two modems use audible tones to transfer data back and forth. Dial-up modems do not use separate frequencies, then the telephone because they use sound to transmit data.
Cable modems vs. ... Cable and DSL both have their advantages and disadvantages. Cable and DSL both have very high data transfer rates, but DSL has the potential to be much more stable than cable. The costs for cable and DSL are also very close. ... Cable modems and DSL differ in availability. ...
After a close analysis and comparison of the two technologies, it seems that cable modem has a slight performance advantage over DSL. ... With technologies like dedicated-bandwidth VDSL, DSL threatens to erase cable"s speed advantages even before overcrowding occurs. ... The competition between the cable modem and the DSL (digital subscriber line) has brought out a new stream of options for every type of consumer. ... The focus of this paper is to demonstrate the pros and cons of both cable modem and DSL for the average consumer as well as for a small business. Let us first look at the DSL. ...
Speed will vary based on whether the provider is offering broadband, DSL or dial-up service. ... Companies that offer DSL generally offer this service at $35 to $40 per month. ... There are fewer sellers in this market and greater limitations due to the fact that the seller must have access to cable transmission. These entrants become bound to the obstacles of cable television market structure. ... f=vs&art_id=905358754&rel=true). ...
It scans your DSL, cable modem, or dial-up Internet connection looking for hacker activity. ... The only cost to the customer is the price of the firewall which is $39.95.4 ZoneAlarm vs. ... ZoneAlarm vs. ...
At the time of Napster's popularity, there were a lot more people with slower modems, and not as many had access to the much faster DSL and cable modems. This is important to know, because even a 3 MB song can take longer to download with a 56k modem than it does with a cable modem. ...