With a high speed connection, you can play games online, also against other persons and in real time, via gaming websites for example. You can also download music and listen to streaming tunes at lightning speed compared to your old dial up tortoise. The remarkable speed of broadband has made internet use more convenient, and it has improved the quality of many existing online activities such as shopping, banking, downloading audio and video, and gaming. Office networks can be accessed at lightening speed from home or anywhere that provides a broadband connection.
Broadband can be provided from a dedicated line such as cable or ISDN, or over the top of your phone line as ADSL. Now the maximum possible for cable is around 50 mbps and 100 mbps for ADSL. Mbps is short for mega bits per second. Approximately 6 million people in the UK use ADSL with an extra 3 million using a cable connection, meaning 9 million people in the UK have an always-on internet connection.
The technical solutions now allows you to keep your phone lines free so you can make and receive calls while using the Internet. Nowadays, many vendors are offering incentives such as reduced cost for...