High Speed Internet

High Speed Internet is also referred to in the technical world as Broadband Internet access. The short form term used for broadband internet access is "broadband". This type of internet access is very fast in comparison to logging onto the internet with your desktop or laptop computer using dial-up access with a modem.

Dial-up modems are slow because they usually are only capable of a maximum bitrate (rate of transfer of bits of data) of 56 kbit/s (kilobits per second). Even with this small amount of data being transferred, this type of internet access requires the full use of a telephone line. This means that when logged onto the internet with a computer, the telephone line cannot be used for making or receiving telephone calls.

Attempting to call a person on their telephone while they are using the telephone line to access the internet will result in getting a busy signal or voice mail. On the other hand, broadband technologies can handle at the very least double the speed of a dial-up connection and in the majority of cases, do not interfere with the use of the telephone line for phone calls.

In most places in the United States, the technologies for broadband internet access have conformed to particular standards. The technologies being used are DSL and cable modems. There are now some state of the art technologies being used in some regions including VDSL and optical fiber connections. Fiber-optic communication is being used in fiber to the premises and fiber to the curb schemes. Nevertheless, fiber optics have been vitally important in enabling Broadband Internet access because of the fact that it makes transmission of information over larger distances much more cost-effective than copper wire technology. The cost of copper has drastically increased over recent years.

An enormous technological challenge has been to broadband internet access service to potential customers in regions of the country where there is relatively low population density. This includes areas large uninhabited expanses of land such as farm or ranch lands. In urban cities and town where the population density is high, there are Higher Speed Internet users to help the internet service provider to recover equipment costs.

For information on high speed ISP services, go to http://www.satellitefamily.com - the leader of HughesNet services.

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Broadband - Unsure Future for the UK

Stephen Timms, the UK's minister for competitiveness, warned last year that the UK risks falling behind in the race to providing super-fast broadband networks, claiming the situation to be "21st century's equivalent of the great arms race".

Timms drew up comparisons between our current broadband networks to those used in Japan and Korea, the world's leaders in broadband speeds, questioning why the UK should be allowed to fall behind.

The average advertised speed in Japan was 93Mbps in 2007, and South Korea's 43Mbps. Compare this to the average advertised speed of 10Mbps in the UK, with actual download speeds in the region of 4.5Mbps its easy to see where Timms is coming from.

The answer, it would seem, to stepping up our broadband networks is easy enough - a nationwide roll-out of fibre optic networks. The practicability and cost factors involved with such a roll out however, are where businesses and government officials start to stumble.

With an estimated cost of 7 to 15Bn, Ofcom, the UK's telecommunications regulatory body is having a hard time trying to convince any one company to invest.

It's been raised that what Timms didn't take into consideration is the concentration of residence in Japan and South Korea, where network speeds are at their highest. As, once you move out of the big cities and into the vast rural areas, the situation with slow or no broadband access isn't all that dissimilar to that experienced here in the UK.

Realistically it would seem that there is no "quick-fix" solution to the problem.

Various experiments and trials are being commissioned around the country with regards to implementing fibre networks, which will of course help towards the cause.

Moreover, even though it does not compare to other countries' networks, the UK is expected to be able to have the networks in place to increase advertised broadband download rates to 24Mbps over the coming years; which is a considerable improvement based on current standards.

Liam is a UK based author, currently focusing on broadband Compare cheap broadband online today.

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