No more dead connections
Sep 22 '00
Cable Internet Access lets you experience the Internet in a whole different aspect. It lets you do things that you would have not dreamed of doing on your old 56K connection. It puts the web into a totally different view. The view that you want.
The good
Well it's the speed and reliability of your connection. You wont have to pray that your 56K connection will allow you to check your email in under an hour because it'll take you les than a minute. No more waiting 2 days just to download a 2MB file because it'll also happen in under a minute.
You'll be able to view live videos and listen to the radio on the Internet with near perfect quality. You also get super fast access to pages over the Internet not dependant on where you are. They can be viewed with great speed form anywhere in the world.
The bad
ummm...fast connection...
What is Cable?
Cable is unlimited high-speed Internet access. Now you don't need to know this but for you people who want to know here it goes.
The cable connection is set through a LAN. That is a local area network. Your computer is connected to a server from your telephone company that is also connected to a main server. This is why you have unlimited connection hours because your only connected to a server and not the main server or the ISP's server.
Now the cable modem is a special modem. It is able to provide speeds of up to 10MB/sec. The Ethernet card linked to your modem allows this ultra high-speed connection. You then get extremely high rates of data transfer.
Why Cable?
Well if you still haven't worked out why you should get cable besides the fact that you get unlimited high-speed Internet access, well then I'll compare the slowest cable connection (128K) with the fastest modem (56K).
First of all the cost of spending 100 hours online would be about $200. But with cable it is always based on your monthly plan (usually $40).
When downloading a file with the 56K modem the absolute maximum speed I have ever obtained are 6K while with the cable the absolute minimum (and it only happened once) was 8K. The cable usually runs at about 20-30K but sometimes works at 200K.
I can go on and on about Cable but by now you should have got the point that the future is set to be cable or DSL and at much higher speeds. The day of the 56K modem is slowly dying out. If there is cable in your town then you'd be a moron not to get it.
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