Archive for the 'Internet' Category
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
So What Broadband Options are Available to You?
Jawahn Thompson asked: Broadband is the name given to high speed Internet connection, which is becoming the preferred way to surf the Web. Dial-Up is quickly becoming a thing of the past, but as more and more people look towards broadband technology to improve their Internet experiences, the question of what service to get pops [...]
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Quality Sacrificed in Broadband Wars?
Paul Lucas asked: TalkTalk started a mini-revolution in the broadband market earlier this year when it launched its TalkTalk 3 and TalkTalk 3 International packages, with the unique marketing slogan of ‘free broadband’. Unsurprisingly, consumers reacted in their thousands despite warnings from industry experts that the take-up could be more than TalkTalk could handle.Still, all [...]
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Broadband Marketplace
Virgil Baptiste asked: What is Broadband
Broadband can be described as a way to share information or any chunks of data that lies on the vast network known as the internet. The term ‘Broadband’ explains the method that is used in conjunction with this data in order for it to be sent and retrieved. [...]
Saturday, July 12th, 2008
Broadband: the Changing Face of Communication
David Collins asked: The rise of internet technology in recent years has transformed the way we communicate with each other. Staying in touch with friends in other countries has switched from hand-written letters that could take weeks to arrive to e-mails and instant messages exchanged in nano-seconds.
Coupled with the recent boom of social networking sites, [...]
Monday, July 7th, 2008
Wireless Broadband
Daniel Roberts asked: What is Wireless Broadband?
Wireless broadband is the most new improved broadband service available. This service is a way to receive broadband without the need for wires, instead a broadband wireless signal is sent around a local area using a device called a wireless broadband router, which enables other computers within the area [...]
Monday, July 7th, 2008
Broadband: Try Before you Buy!
Adair Cameron asked: The communications industry regulator Ofcom has again questioned the big name broadband providers’ reliability when it comes to broadband speeds.
Advertisements such as “Up to 8Mb Download Speed” have been criticised for a number of months now, with the average user reaching speeds around 2.7Mb.
A recent survey showed that out of 3,000 people, [...]
Sunday, July 6th, 2008
Clearer Broadband Information Please!
John Gray asked: Adverts often show broadband speeds as ‘up to 8MB’ which implies that customers will receive 8MB, however the speed depends on how far away you live from the exchange. In the majority of cases it would be almost impossible to receive such a speed.
Computeractive magazine asked over 3000 of it’s readers [...]
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Broadband Internet - the Technology Ahead
Raina Kelsey asked: Broadband Internet access, which most often shortened to just “broadband”, is high-speed Internet access contrasted with dial-up access over a modem. Dial-up modems are usually capable of only a maximum bitrate of 56 kbit/s and require the full use of a telephone line; while at the same time broadband technologies supply at [...]
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
The Side Effect of Online Video to our Broadband Experience
Adair Cameron asked: Over the last couple of years we have seen a boom in demand for online videos. Broadband users have had access to websites like “youtube.com” who were formed in 2005 and become so popular that Google Inc bought them for $1.65 Billion. It has allowed broadband users to view thousands of videos [...]
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Broadband: Game On!
David Collins asked: The popularity of online gaming has surged in recent years, thanks largely to a range of games including World of Warcraft (WoW), Halo and Final Fantasy online.
And with the creation of television channels showing big budget tournaments, with players from around the world battling each other in a virtual world for cash [...]