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Internet Services
It wasn't all that long ago that most people got to the Internet using their telephone. With widespread high-speed options readily available in most areas though, dial-up connections are the exception.
Choosing an Internet service might not be to hard depending on where you live. You simply might not have many options. The two most common services are cable, provided by the cable television company, and DSL, or Digital Subscriber Line, which comes from the telephone company. New high(er) speed wireless options are beginning to emerge, but their wide use is still pretty scattered so we'll leave them for another discussion later.
Cable will give you the fastest download speeds and is basically pretty dependable. If you normal cable TV service is reliable, then you can expect about the same for your cable Internet. The downsides to cable are the upload speeds, the speed that files you send out travel, and the fact that you share the total available 'speed' or bandwidth, with all your neighbors. Upload speeds are probably not a huge factor for most home users. Obviously if you are sending a lot of video or high-resolutions photos to grandma every day, the upload speed will be much more important to you. The typical upload speed is 256kpbs (kilobytes per second). This is about 4.5 times faster than most dial-up connections, but a very small fraction of the download speeds with are normally 2-4mbps (megabytes per second). The second concern is the shared nature of cable. Neighborhood are segmented into physical groups for the cable system. These groups are defined by street crossings. So your cable is shared will all neighbors who are not separated from you by a road or alley. There are some exceptions, but this is generally the rule. So if your connection speed is 4mbps, you are sharing that 4mb with all the others on your cable group. If that group includes a lot of teen-agers, you might see your performance drop dramatically about the time school lets out!
Choosing an Internet service might not be to hard depending on where you live. You simply might not have many options. The two most common services are cable, provided by the cable television company, and DSL, or Digital Subscriber Line, which comes from the telephone company. New high(er) speed wireless options are beginning to emerge, but their wide use is still pretty scattered so we'll leave them for another discussion later.
Cable will give you the fastest download speeds and is basically pretty dependable. If you normal cable TV service is reliable, then you can expect about the same for your cable Internet. The downsides to cable are the upload speeds, the speed that files you send out travel, and the fact that you share the total available 'speed' or bandwidth, with all your neighbors. Upload speeds are probably not a huge factor for most home users. Obviously if you are sending a lot of video or high-resolutions photos to grandma every day, the upload speed will be much more important to you. The typical upload speed is 256kpbs (kilobytes per second). This is about 4.5 times faster than most dial-up connections, but a very small fraction of the download speeds with are normally 2-4mbps (megabytes per second). The second concern is the shared nature of cable. Neighborhood are segmented into physical groups for the cable system. These groups are defined by street crossings. So your cable is shared will all neighbors who are not separated from you by a road or alley. There are some exceptions, but this is generally the rule. So if your connection speed is 4mbps, you are sharing that 4mb with all the others on your cable group. If that group includes a lot of teen-agers, you might see your performance drop dramatically about the time school lets out!
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