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HOW TO CONNECT TO THE INTERNET

Connect your computer to the Internet with either Broadband or Dial-up by using one of the Internet Service Providers (ISP) listed below - click on its link to find out more about its services.
  1. Broadband. Fast connection and always on at no extra cost other than monthly fee and initial installation cost, if any. Broadband gives fast, easy access to online news, business and stock exchange information, shopping, webcams, games and email. Broadband is also making multiplayer online games popular on the internet. Broadband connection can be via:-
     
    1. Telephone line where you can make telephone calls or use the FAX at the same time as using the Internet. There is a choice of connection of up to 10 times and 20 times faster than the speed of a standard dial-up. These speed are 5, 10 and 40 times the speed of ISDN. You will also find that different ISP's will provide additional services and content. Look at these:-

      • TalkTalk Free with your phone line in many areas.
         
      • BT Broadband has special rates for home and business users.
         
      • Sky Broadband includes packages for TV and phones.

       
    2. Cable via a dedicated cable connection. It is up to 20 times faster than the speed of a standard dial-up.

     
  2. Dial-up. Basic internet connection over the telephone line, giving web access and use of email. Dail-up is much slower than broadband and a charge is made for the use of the telephone line for the period of the connection.
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MODEMS, ROUTERS, ADAPTORS, WiFi

Most popular wired modems
 
Most popular wireless modems
 
WiFi Hotspot is a wireless network, range about 100 meters, that can link WiFi enabled handheld devices and laptops to a broadband internet connection and do so more effectively than with a mobile telephone.
 
ADSL is Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line - it is the technology that provides broadband access to the Internet over your phone line. It splits the signal on your existing telephone line into two, one for voice and the other for data. The most popular services in the UK download information to the browser at speeds of 2Mbps (approx. 36 times faster than a modem), although speeds of up to 8Mbps can be obtained. Upload speeds are slower on all products and hence this is why it is "asymmetric", because the download speed is different to the upload speed.
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