Broadband and Bandwidth

What is Broadband?
The term broadband refers to a telecommunications signal of greater bandwidth, in some sense, than another standard or usual signal (and the broader the band, the greater the capacity for traffic

• What is broadband?

• What is units are used to measure bandwidth?

  The units which are used to measure are megabytes, bytes, and bits.

• How much faster is broadband than dial-up?

Basic broadband is atleast four times faster, but this is the minimal difference. As the Broadband becomes more advanced , the speed difference widens, and broadband overtakes the

'dirt track' of dialup internet. An average broadband line, working at 512Kbps, is about nine times faster than the best dialup connection, while a really fast broadband line, working at up to 8MBps (megabits per second), can be over 100 times quicker!

• What are the speeds that broadband operates at compared to dial-up?

 There is a great eHow article on this topic.

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• What are some of the advantages of using a broadband connection to download something like a video compared to dial-up

Refer to the diagram above.

 Instead of treating your phone line as a single, narrow pipe between your computer and the ISP's computer, like a dialup connection, it divides the line into many different channels. Information can travel in parallel streams down these channels. It's like dividing a highway into several lanes: lots more traffic can go down it in parallel than down a single-lane road.

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