Broadband and Bandwith

1.    What is broadband?

Signals over such a range of frequencies. telecommunications signal of greater bandwidth, in some sense, than another standard or usual signal

2. What units are used to measure bandwidth?

 Bandwith is measured in bits

3. How much faster is broadband than dial up?

broadband is alot faster than dial up. dial up is about 48 Kbps where as broadband is 256kbps so it is clearly ALOT faster 

 4. What are some of the advantages of using a broadband connection to download something like a video compared to dial up?
Using a broadband connection is much easier to download because it is alot faster than dial up. Downloading using dial up takes alot longer rather than broadband.

5. Create an image in paint that illustrates how a high bandwidth connection can move more data compared to a dial up connection at a given time.

Bandwith                                 Dial up

A] How many people subscribed to the internet in 2007? How many of these were for business use? How many for home use?

Buisness: 965

Household: 6140

Total: 7105

B] Look at the access technologies heading. How many more people are using broadband since 2005? Remember that you have to add 000 to the numbers.

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

2.40 mbps

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

 2.52mbps

3. Why did the data transfer rates vary? [Hint: think of what happens when an eight lane highway moves into a two lane highway?]

At this time in amercia it wouldnt be vey busy due to it being the night this may be why it is faster than aus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband