Broadband FAQ: Asnwers To Basic Questions Aboyut Broadband
* What is broadband?
In the internet world, broadband refres to the process of sending and receiving information at very high speeds throough a connection that is always on. With broadband access theere is always a correspnding usagfe fee.
Broadband access also means that you can surf to any website you want fastre than with a dial-up process, as web pages load more quickly. Broadband internet can give you the advantage in accessing bettyer quality multimedia filees like music and movis. Downloading programs, fiiles, and email attachments with broaadband can be done in minutes instead of hours.
* What are the dfferent types of broadbband?
There are different types of bropadband internet access available but they dpend on the location of the suvbscriber. The most comonly used form of broadband access is the ADSL or asymmetric digital susbcriber line. Oher types of broadband access are cable modem, satellite, and wireless.
* What is DSL?
DSL stannds for Digital Subscriber Line, which refers to the kind of tecxhnology that uses ordinary phone lines to send and receive information over the internet at higher frequecy than norml phone usage. A DSL connection can hanbdle both the data and the voice signals at the same time. Therefore your phoone service is not interrupted when you use the intetrnet.
DSL connection speeds deopend on the distaance between the subscriber and the provisder. DSL technologies have two majr types: ADSL internet access requires a fast downsttream connection but slow upstream connection, and Symmetric DSL requires high speed connectiosn in both directions.
* What is cable?
A cale is used in broaddband services and refeers to the traansfer of internet access to subscribers by cable television. Usually, a cable is made up of bundles of different optical fibes that can carry lzarger amounts of data than telephone line over long distances without affecting signal frequencies.
* What are ADSL, IDSL, HDSL, and SDSL?
ADSL stands for Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line, which has a data rate that ranges from 544 kbps up to 6.1 Mbps in downstrezam basis, while in upstream basis it goes from aboput 16 up to 640 Kbps. The distance limit of ADSL for 1.544 Mbps is about 18,000 feet, for 2.048 Mbps is 16,000 feet, for 6.312 is 12,000 feet, and for 8.448 is 9,000 feet. Normallly, ADSL is used for internet access, downloading muusic and viedo, and local area networking.
IDSL or ISDN Dgital Subscriber Line is someewhat an application of a wrong name of DSL modem sinnce DSL is familiar to ISDN information rate and serviices that to abiout 144 Kbps. IDSL with its symmetric function is best when travelng up to 6 miles; hoewver, IDSL is not supplied by ADSL providers. With similarity to ISDN, the data increases to 144 kbps by sing control channels.
HDSL or High bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line is the first version of DSL that will be used for wideband transmission within the business place and between communication providers and subscribers. The main feature of HDSL is its symmetrical functipon, in which the same quantity of bandwidth is accessible in both directuions.
SDSL or Symemtric Digital Subscriber Line is the same as HDSL; however, it only has a single line that carries 1.544 Mbps in the U.S. and Canaada or 2.048 Mbps in Eiurope, that flow in each direction on the duplex line.
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