Broadband and Bandwidth!

What is broadband? Broadband Internet access, is usually just shortened to broadbad.
It is a high data rate internet access, typically contrasted with dial-up access using a 56k modem.


What units are used to measure bandwidth?
Bandwidth is usually measured in bits and bytes. A byte is 8 bits.

How much faster is broadband than dial up?
Broadband is atleast four times faster than a dial-up. But usually it is much much faster than dial-up.


What are the speeds that broadband operates at compared to dial up?
Broadband is often called 'high-speed' access to the interent, it is usually 256 kbits/s (0.256 Mbit/s) or even greater whereas dial-up only has a speed of 56 kbit/s.

What are some of the advantages of using a broadband connection to download something like a video compared to dial up?

Some advantages of using a broadband connection to downloading something is,  it works up to 100 times faster than dial-up conenction. You can download things in seconds or minutes instead of hours. The internet connection is always on so it is not like the download will be interepted.

Australian Bureau of Statistics:

A] How many people subscribed to the internet in 2007? How many of these were for business use? How many for home use?
Around 7925 people subscribed  to the internet in 2007 and 1295 were for business use and 6629 for home use.

B] Look at the access technoloogies heading. How many more people using broadband since 2005?
Out of the 4.7 million households around 48% had broadban internet access. This grew during the year and it almost doubled with 2.3 million households using broadband internet access.

Check internet speed:

1. What is the speed of the connection from your computer to the Sydney location on the map?

The speed connection from our computer to the Sydney location is 0.30 Mb/s (upload).

2. What is the speed of the connection from your computer to the U.S location on the map?

The speed of the connection from our computer to U.S. location is 0.20Mb/s (upload).

3. Why did the data transfer rates vary?

It varies because it takes longer to go all the way to the U.S. whereas for Sydney, its in the same country.