I don want a WiFi connection to broadband internet – what options do I have?
To connect to the internet, you need one of two things: either a cable connection (via a company such as NTL) or a standard phone line. Modern internet connections normally use a technology called ADSL (Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line), which allows the phone to be used at the same time as surfing on the internet. This technology needs to be enabled at your local telephone exchange, but two thirds of the UK (as of Summer 2007) is now supported. Contact your phone provider (for example BT) and ask them if they can provide broadband to your house – if so they are also likely to send a package containing all you need to connect your computer to the internet (modem, ADSL filter and cables). The modem enables the computer to connect, and the filter ensures that you can use the telephone at the same time as the internet (with only one line) without having either service compromised. Both cable and ADSL internet connections are entirely free of microwave EMF emissions, and we have no rea
