Texas
ISP - Netport Wireless
What is broadband?
The Internet is getting more elaborate by the
day. Web pages are swarming with animation, downloadable
movies and music abound, and even emails from
Grandma can contain pictures or even home video
clips. The phone modems used by most people to
get Internet access have reached the limits of
their performance, necessitating new technologies
to allow users to surf the Internet without having
to wait minutes (or hours) for a page or file
to download.
These new technologies are collectively known
as broadband. They comprise a variety of different
systems, but they all have one major goal: to
increase the rate a user can send and receive
data, and thus make the Internet (and other online
activities, like videoconferencing) easier and
faster to use. For the uninitiated, broadband
is a bewildering array of acronyms and techno
babble, most of which isn't really all that important
to someone who's just trying to get a good deal
on fast Internet access.
What can NetPort do for you?
The first advantage of NetPort is that it generally
avoids the hassles associated with dialup connections.
With NetPort, you can surf the 'net freely, without
worrying about tying up your phone line or using
up a precious allotment of hours.
The second (and for many, the more important)
advantage of NetPort is speed: lots of it. If
you've sat around twiddling your thumbs while
waiting for a web page to download, you know how
annoying a slow connection is. With NetPort, those
aggravations are reduced or even eliminated. Not
only will web surfing be faster in general, allowing
you to hop from web page to web page almost as
fast as you can click your mouse, but the speed
of broadband opens up a host of other possibilities
for both home and business users.
Streaming media are movies and music that can
be viewed on your computer without first saving
them to your hard drive, much like the way you've
always been able to watch a television show without
having to record it on a VCR first. Downloading
a streaming video on a dialup connection is akin
to picking up a faint TV signal using a coat hangar
as an antenna; the signal can fade in and out,
and even at its best, it's not great. With a NetPort
connection, a streaming video will come in fast
and steady, with much better video quality.
Computer gamers can play online against opponents
around the world, without lag or slowdown, and
without the worry that a family member's important
phone call will interrupt a vital shoot-em-up
tournament.
The table below gives some comparative examples
of the improvements of a broadband connection
over dialup.
“Shared Broadband”
Some service providers employ a daisy chain network
design. A common form is rooftop to rooftop repeaters
also known as “house-hopping”, “path-type”,
or “wireless dialup”. The disadvantages
to this design are two-folder. First, the daisy
chain is one circuit that is shared, not unlike
the “party-line” phone of a generation
post. If you are the only one on the circuit at
the time you can approach true broadband speeds
minus any channel management overhaul. If however,
everyone one the daisy chain is on at the same
time, speeds will slow to dialup rates. The second
disadvantage is reliability. If the power goes
out on one house, one piece of equipment fails,
one user starts generating noise due to virus
or other problem, the entire chain goes down like
a string of Christmas lights.
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