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Broadband v Dial Up - Speed Matters
Written by Brianuna Hedderun   
Thursday, 29 October 2009 16:03
If you ask people in the modern world today, they will all probably have heard of broadband. But while they may have heard of it, not many of them actually understand what it really means, or how it has revolutionized the way we now use the internet. When we all began surfing the net, the way we connected our computers to the internet was to use a dial up service which meant that we used an ordinary telephone line. Broadband uses a different media and is much, much faster.
by BrianunaHedderun


If you ask people in the modern world today, they will all probably have heard of broadband. But while they may have heard of it, not many of them actually understand what it really means, or how it has revolutionized the way we now use the internet. When we all began surfing the net, the way we connected our computers to the internet was to use a dial up service which meant that we used an ordinary telephone line. Broadband uses a different media and is much, much faster.

With broadband, you no longer have to have a telephone line, and some people utilize their satellite TV systems instead. The majority of people do still use their telephone lines, alongside which an ISDN line is routed, and this drastically increases the capacity and allows you to run your internet, and your telephone service side by side over the same telephone line vie a router or splitter.

Broadband is very much faster than dial up, and this is exactly what has made it so popular. Because of this increased speed it has opened up a whole new world of possibilities, such as downloading music files and even movies. It is something called bandwidth that enables this faster speed. If you picture a water pipe, you can understand that the bigger the diameter of the pipe, the more water it will allow passing through. Broadband operates on the same principle. The bigger the broadband capacity, (normally referred to in mega bytes), the more "traffic" (electronic data) it will allow through.

In essence, broadband gives you the facility to surf the net so much quicker. Most companies sell their services by extolling the amount of bandwidth they provide. But they also play down the fact that the more people that are using the service, the slower it will be, and also, in some countries, the farther your connection point is away from the closest exchange, the slower the service can be.

The service can be sold to many more people that what the bandwidth will allow because the chances are very good that not everyone will be using the internet at the same time. It is also acceptable to over sell the capabilities because someone who does regular searching online does not take up as much of the space as someone that does more technical things like downloading music and such.

The other consideration is the way that people use the internet. The great majority of broadband customers are simply surfing the net, and they do not use anywhere near as much broadband capacity as those who transfer data, such as music files, or graphics. Data transfer typically requires 3 to 4 times more capacity than simply surfing.

Broadband has revolutionized the way that we use the internet today. Using broadband it takes only seconds or a few short minute to download songs and movies, whereas as with dial up it could literally take hours and you often get "timed out" if you try.

Yes, it is true that dial up is mostly free (just paying for the cost of the calls), but most people are more than happy to pay a little more money and receive a far superior service.

For the great majority there is only one choice; broadband! Once you have tried it out for yourself, it is extremely unlikely that you would ever consider going back to dial up again.

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