Beginning With Broadband

By: Lorna Mclaren

So you have bought your computer and entered the 21st century but for a piece of technology that so many people told you would change the way you would communicate it is so very, very slow. You need broadband.

Broadband will make your communication abilities faster, broadband will speed up your download times and broadband will ensure that you are connected to the information highway 24/7.

If you are a first time computer user then the idea of broadband must seem fabulous but what exactly is broadband and how exactly does broadband change your communication abilities?

There are a variety of different definitions of broadband available. Verio.com defines broadband as

“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.”

Other definitions of broadband are equally confusing to the ‘computer newbie’. Basically broadband is a “.... communications medium that uses wide-bandwidth channels for sending and receiving large amounts of data, video or voice information.”

If you have cable TV then you are already a consumer of broadband technology as cable TV utilises wide bandwidths to provide your service. Broadband is a technology that allows a wide bandwidth to be used to transmit a lot of information at the one time. This means that upgrading to broadband will get you your requested information faster and having broadband will mean that you can send information faster. Simply put there is more room on a broadband connection for more information.

Once you have made the upgrade to broadband you will never look back. The speed that comes with a wide bandwidth is something you will wonder how you ever lived without. Broadband means the end of having to wait minutes for a requested web page to actually appear on your screen, an end to wondering if you wouldn’t just be quicker ‘snail mailing’ rather than e-mailing and broadband will connect you to the world of information that you didn’t even know existed, because it always took too long to download.

Upgrading to a broadband connection is a must to be able to get the most from the World Wide Web. Make sure you are not left behind as broadband sweeps through the web making information really at your fingertips.