Internet and Technology

Article by Francis David

Today, usage of internet has become inevitable. Through surfing the web, we can find any information that we want, download our favorite movies and songs and can even purchase anything online. The time required to browse various pages of a single website or to browse different websites solely depends on your internet connection speed. And this can really become time consuming if you are having a Dial-up connection. Wake up! It’s time to switch from your Dial-up internet connection to a Broadband high speed connection.

Conventional networks like the Dial-up internet are intended for one particular use and may not be suitable for others. The best example is when we use cellular telephone networks for large data transfers. In such cases they are not at all effective. When we want to transfer data using a computer having little connectivity, the connection may get terminated because of shortage of bandwidth.The speed of data transfer with traditional or conventional Dial-up connection usually stays around 56Kbps. Technologies such as ISDN provide superior quality and quicker access, however it is expensive when compared to the conventional forms. Today most corporations, SME’s and even home based connections use DSL or Cable for high speed internet access. DSL uses twin copper lines and does not require you to Dial-in for accessing the internet as your ISP is always indicated on the DSL connection. While, the cable technology relies on a shared bandwidth as compared to DSL and operates using the coaxial cable which provides you with a greater bandwidth. If you already have an existing cable connection for your TV, you can use the same for accessing the internet as well.

As per the latest survey by the FCA, 74% of America’s population access internet via a broadband connection. If you compare the speeds of DSL and cable, DSL offers you speeds up to 2.4 Mbps during download and 1.3 Mbps for uploads. Cable internet comes with a higher speeds ranging from 2 Mbps to 10 Mbps for downloading and from 384 kbps to 256 kbps during upload. This is why cable internet connections have become more popular than DSL connections. So, why are you waiting for? Switch over from Dial-up connection to much higher options for accessing Internet, today!

By: Francis David

For all the Internet users who are reading this article, a few of them would be familiar with the actual definition of ‘high speed dial up’- a term which is so prevalent in the contemporary and Internet friendly scenario. Let us start this article by defining the term and elucidating over it. High speed dial up is another term used for broadband dial up. It is an Internet service provider feature, which makes the process of data transferring relatively faster with the help of a special server that is known as the acceleration server, which serves as a link between the user’s dial up connection and a Web page.

The above definition clearly indicates the biggest benefit of the high speed dial up, that is to speed up the Internet connection. It is made possible through the acceleration server that requests a web page on the behalf of the dial up user. After receiving the required information in the form of data, it caches that particular web page, compresses the information (data), and also clears the data from all the pop ups and then sends it to the dial up user. The user gets a tremendous benefit from such kind of process. To put it in simple terms, an ordinary user can have his dial up connection five times faster than the normal connection.

With the arrival of the modern broadband technology, the traditional dial up Internet connection is getting replaced with the better technologies that make the Internet connection really fast and hassle free. Now the high speed dial up or the broadband uses a digital modem that is used with the cable and the digital services in place of the older analogue modems that used traditional dial up technology. However there are certain disadvantages of this technology as well. The primary accusation that is pitted against the high speed dial up connection is that some kind of web content cannot be brought faster with this kind of technology as the high speed dial up is not able to compress all of the data with this technology. This kind of data includes streaming media, secures web pages, and downloads multimedia e-mail attachment and so on, which takes time in getting transferred in your computer.

Thus, high speed dial up is a prolific technology that is bringing a faster Internet access to the user and is gaining widespread popularity all around the world.