Broadband

1.    What is broadband?
A telecommunications signal or device of greater bandwidth, than another standard signal or device.

2. What units are used to measure bandwidth?

Bits per second.

3. How much faster is broadband than dial up?

10 to 20 times faster.

4. What are the speeds that broadband operates at compared to dial up?

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

Broadband operates faster than dial up and this gives it the advantage because it gives a speedy transfer of large data meaning downloading a video or a song may take a few minutes or seconds while on dial up it may take hours.

6. 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.

A] How has the type of access connection to the internet changed in recent years?

 Over the years, more and more people use  mobile/fixed wireless and less use dial up but almost an equal amount of DSL and cable/fibre/satellite.

B] Can you identify a trend in advertised download speeds?

 

Less people use broadband that is less than 256kbps

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

 my computer wont let me.

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

my computer wont let me.

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

For sydney it's more spaced out, as not many people use it compared to the U.S location which is used more. It's like traffic on a two lane highway which was previously an eight lane highway.