Sunday, March 21, 2010
High-Speed Internet Options
Posted on 7:10 AM by Impress Rabi
Recently, I attended the finals for the Professional Gamers League. The league has an online competition, and the top eight players in each category are flown to the finals. At the finals, there was a 100-megabyte-per-second LAN setup (thanks to 3M), so there were no latency worries. However, some of the players who had competed over the Internet with a modem, not a T1 connection, had a little trouble getting used to playing on a superfast LAN. However, as more high-speed Internet connections are installed in residential homes, I think that the Professional Gamers League will become a success.
In the upcoming year, more high-speed Internet connections will be available in the home. In the past, home-users were limited to a slow modem connection or, if they wanted more speed, an ISDN connection. However, ISDN was not practical for the majority of home users because of the high-priced phone lines, service and ISDN modems. Two new technologies that are coming into the home in the near future are DSL connections and cable modems.
Cable modems offer 1.5- to three-megabytes-per-second download rates on average, and about 700-kilobyte upload speed. The connection is through a cable television adaptor. It requires a special cable modem box (rented in service) and an Ethernet card. One cable modem provider, @Home, offers its cable modem service for $29.95 to $49.95 a month depending on the local cable provider. One of the main advantages aside from the speed is that cable modems are always on (i.e. you don't need to connect as you would with an ordinary modem) and therefore don't take up a phone line. However, there are a few cable modem providers that only offer downstream service. The local provider in my area will provide only downstream service and it requires that I connect over a phone line. I'm not too happy about this, but I'll still get it for the extra speed once it is available.
The other high-speed Internet option is that of DSL modems. A DSL modem works over the phone lines at a very high pitch that allows for fast data transfer rates of up to eight megabytes per second downstream and 800 kilobytes upstream. Like cable modem service, DSL is always on and, even though it works over the phone line, the phone line will still function like normal without any restrictions. Like cable-modem service, DSL will also require an Ethernet card (as will any high-speed service) and a special modem.
The copyright of the article High-Speed Internet Options in Computer Hardware is owned by Michael Christopher Brinton. Permission to republish High-Speed Internet Options in print or online must be granted by the author in writing.
In the upcoming year, more high-speed Internet connections will be available in the home. In the past, home-users were limited to a slow modem connection or, if they wanted more speed, an ISDN connection. However, ISDN was not practical for the majority of home users because of the high-priced phone lines, service and ISDN modems. Two new technologies that are coming into the home in the near future are DSL connections and cable modems.
Cable modems offer 1.5- to three-megabytes-per-second download rates on average, and about 700-kilobyte upload speed. The connection is through a cable television adaptor. It requires a special cable modem box (rented in service) and an Ethernet card. One cable modem provider, @Home, offers its cable modem service for $29.95 to $49.95 a month depending on the local cable provider. One of the main advantages aside from the speed is that cable modems are always on (i.e. you don't need to connect as you would with an ordinary modem) and therefore don't take up a phone line. However, there are a few cable modem providers that only offer downstream service. The local provider in my area will provide only downstream service and it requires that I connect over a phone line. I'm not too happy about this, but I'll still get it for the extra speed once it is available.
The other high-speed Internet option is that of DSL modems. A DSL modem works over the phone lines at a very high pitch that allows for fast data transfer rates of up to eight megabytes per second downstream and 800 kilobytes upstream. Like cable modem service, DSL is always on and, even though it works over the phone line, the phone line will still function like normal without any restrictions. Like cable-modem service, DSL will also require an Ethernet card (as will any high-speed service) and a special modem.
The copyright of the article High-Speed Internet Options in Computer Hardware is owned by Michael Christopher Brinton. Permission to republish High-Speed Internet Options in print or online must be granted by the author in writing.
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