Broadband Explained

Broadband Explained
Essential Information
Going online used to be about connecting your computer
to your home telephone and dialling in to surf the web.
This is known as dial-up Internet access and although it
will get you online, it’s slow. There are lots of new and
exciting websites and services you can’t use with a dialup
connection unless you’re prepared to wait and wait
and wait.
Broadband allows you to surf the web at high speed.
It still uses your telephone line (or cable service), but
squeezes a lot more information down it at much faster
speeds, opening up new ways to communicate and be
entertained.