What will human beings do without the World Wide Web? Internet has taken over the hearts and souls of people irrespective of their likes and dislikes.
But while logging on to your favorite social networking site, have you ever wondered how the whole thing works? Most of today's internet users use a broadband connection.
Compared to a dial- up connection it is much faster and gives you the freedom of using your phone even while cruising the various web sites.
But although the differences in speed offered by dial up and broad band are many, technically speaking both work in a similar pattern.
Both the connections work through a modem, the usage of the modem is different but nevertheless it is a modem.
Apart from the equipment used, there are many differences between these internet connections.
A broadband is much more cost effective than a dial up connection.
This is so because for the former, you just have to pay a monthly rent which is a fixed amount.
But for the latter for every time you connect to the internet you have to pay for the dial that connects the net.
The speed differences when you compare the two connections are appalling.
While the dial up connection gives you just 56 kbps maximum, the other gives you a maximum of 256 kbps, that is a whole new world of cyber space opens to you in less than a minute! One of the main reasons people opt for a broadband connection is that it does not need to transmit analogue signals as a dial up needs to.
When you need to watch a video or attach an important file to your email, dial up can give you a real hard time.
Downloading stuff can also pose quite a big boring problem.
All these problems do not exist if you choose a broadband connection.