Communication Protocol Part Three

Broadband 

30th Monday, September, 2013

What is Broadband you may ask? Broadband is a bridge from you computer in your warm secure home to a very large network of extremely loud and scary looking servers which just so happen to store the untold amounts of information, the internet.



Broadband is a major upgrade from the undoubtedly low specifications of 1.0 internet that may have taken you over a minuet or so just to look at a photograph this was, in a way a more traditional way of accessing the basic internet and was referred to as "telephone" or a more professional term would be "modem". The upgrade to Broadband made the ability to send information much quicker and efficiently.



On the basis of Broadband, its a service that has multiple providers you can think of this as different shop to buy your groceries, but what they do is to provide you with a service over your phone line, television or satellite. This enable for a service that can handle taking the masses of large information right to your computer, so all the sites that have multimedia functions to be experienced in real time, in home or office.


Connection to the internet is impossible, (unless you haven't paid your bills on time or the router isn't turned on). Which allows you to browse and surf to your hearts content, so that means no down time like TV in the late 20th century. This also makes it possible to you to call your great aunt Mildred 2000 miles away and still have the ability to stream a live boxing match, and jump into a heated online fps game with very little latency, and so much more with very little drop in the connection. In this age you simply pay a monthly fee such as you would for insuring a vehicle for a free and unlimited service so you are not charged by time spent on the web but just per month. If you pay as you go this then does differ, as you pay for a chunk of date, like you would on a mobile phone if you needed to.



The capability's for downloading have also changed drastically, you now have the ability to download at a staggering 100 megabytes per second and more, as before pretty much everyone was stuck at a very poor bps or kbps, these speeds do still exist however depending on where you may live. You can even take advantage of chatting directly using either a desktop client such as Skype which also allows a voice chat if you have a microphone, which is great if you are a freelance worker that operates from home or there is  MSN  (Micro Soft Network) which is another form of instant messaging.


Lastly a Broadband connection to the internet means you can receive real time services like, online radio stations, live streams of your favourite gamers or someone who you are a huge fan of such as a musician, also phone calls, random webcam chat ,ect...   Compared to how it was in the 80's and 90's the internet is much easier to use and a hell of a lot more fun, not to mention how fast and efficient it can be, This really does appeal to the work from home types with the thanks of a much higher speed.