How does High-Speed Cable Internet access work?
High-Speed Cable Internet Access utilizes and shares the existing coaxial and fiber cable lines that currently bring television signals into your home. High-Speed Cable Internet Access is designed to transmit Internet information (packets) to your computer at incredibly high rates of speed. In fact, customers receive information at speeds of up to 100 times faster than an ordinary 28.8 modem! Additionally, it’s important to realize that the television signals and the Internet information travel through the cable at different frequencies, enabling you to watch cable television while accessing the Internet at the same time with no impact on television reception. Did we mention the importance of an Ethernet card? Well, for “Two-Way” service, an Ethernet card is equipped to receive the bursts of high-speed information from the cable line and translate the data in a way that your computer system can understand. In areas of “One-Way” service, the internal Cable Modem is designed to translate
