What is broadband or high-speed Internet?
Our first modem, the hardware in our computer that allowed us to connect to the Internet was a speedy 1200 baud rate (about 1200 bits per second), about the speed of walking down the Internet superhighway. Within two years, we had an even faster modem that gave us a racing 2400 baud rate, twice as fast, so we were skipping down the information superhighway. Today, twenty years later, we are currently connected to a cable networked modem and burning up the Internet at an average of 300 million bits per second, smoke coming of the back of our high speed vehicle. This is the difference between a telephone connection, which tops out at 56,000 bits per second (on a good day), and a high-speed or broadband Internet connection. Connecting to the Internet comes with a lot of choices today. There is the traditional telephone line (topped at 56,000), digital telephone (100 million to 500 million), and cable, ADSL or DSL (speeds over 300 million). There are also wireless systems and satellite sys
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