T1 Basics - General Overview

The cost of T1 service has dropped considerably since its inception in the early 1960’s. No longer is this service for large corporations only. Mid sized and even small businesses can now benefit from dedicated T1 service. For the home business/home office, this service might still be a bit expensive. It’s best to run your own quotes for service and cost it out. Business grade DSL is a viable and cost effective solution for the smaller business owner and the topic of a future article.

Broadband

Broadband Internet is like a broad highway where the traffic is fast and unhindered. There are no irritating and wasteful delays or holdups that leave you wringing your hands helplessly while you fret and fume for the traffic to clear up. The traffic is fast, smooth and clear round the clock.

Broadband Speeds

Broadband speed can be compared to a broad highway through which traffic moves smoothly at great speed, without any road blocks, breaks, delays or other hassles. You reach your destination straightaway without loss of time and conduct your business expeditiously. Internet broadband is similar to the breadth and smoothness of a well-designed highway, in that it enables the transfer of data instantly with a click of the mouse.

Satellite Internet Access

The Internet is a terrestrial-based system, and satellite Internet technology utilizes an extraterrestrial-based system, i.e. satellite, to get connected to the Internet backbone. The need for the access through satellite is the lack of DSL and cable lines in remote areas and in mobile situations such as seafaring vessels.

An Introduction To Broadband Internet

The Internet, and more so the broadband Internet, have revolutionized the way we live and work as never before. It has opened up undreamt of possibilities; its potential for more new possibilities is growing at unprecedented speed. You could never have imagined that a cardiovascular surgery could be conducted under live video supervision and guidance of a surgeon sitting in a far off place. Or, in the foreign exchange capital market, transaction of sale and purchase of important currencies worth billions and trillions of dollars daily could take place in a matter of seconds. Such examples can be multiplied to no end. All this has become possible with the advent of broadband Internet.

Bandwidth

The term bandwidth is very common these days, especially because its technology affects almost all aspects of our lives. You use bandwidth when you connect to the internet, when you use the telephone, when you watch television, and in many other activities. But what exactly is bandwidth? Read on to find out and see how it can change your life.

Bandwidth Tests

You can easily determine the speed of your internet connection bandwidth by using websites that offer free bandwidth tests. But do these sites really measure the ‘real-time’ performance of your web connection? Read on to understand how bandwidth tests really work, and bust the misconceptions you have about them.

Get, Set, Go - Web 2.0

A few years ago Bill Gates peddled the idea of Convergence. It was the new mantra then that became a buzzword for the Internet Industry. Of course that promised marriage between the Television and the PC/Internet didn’t quite materialize.

Dial Up ISP

Dial up Internet service providers, or ISPs, are mostly organizations, companies or business that provides people who want access to the information superhighway the chance to do so. People who use dial up ISP are provided immediate access to the Internet through their own telephone lines. All you need is a computer, a telephone line and a modem that serves as the medium and channel between the phone line and the computer. Dial up ISPs provides users Internet connections that are around 56 kilobytes per second, or less.

Wireless Network Cards

Network cards are the backbone of any network. The Network interface card or the network card is a hardware device that allows a computer to be connected to a network, and through the network to other computers and devices. It is installed in one of the free peripheral connect interface (PCI) slots of a computer and includes a port in which the networking cable is inserted. There are different NICs for different networks even if the computer is the same. For example, if a computer is to be connected to an Ethernet LAN, it must be equipped with an Ethernet network card and if it is to be connected to a wireless LAN, a wireless network card needs to be installed.

Tim Berners-Lee: The Man Who 'Invented' The Internet

The WWW was developed to increase the ease with which people could exchange information. This became a reality with the introduction of the first WYSWIG (What You See Is What You Get) hypertext web browser which was written by Tim Berners-Lee. The advantage of the WWW over previous systems was ...

High Speed Internet Providers

High-speed Internet service providers use broadband and digital subscriber line (DSL) technology to provide high-speed Internet access to their customers. Until a couple of years ago, it was becoming increasingly difficult to provide these services to rural and remote areas, due to cost constraints.

We Have Finally Entered the High Speed Internet Era

So we've finally left the era of the Internet crawling along, taking forever to load anything – we've entered the high speed age,