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Broadband connections

Broadband connections

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Broadband connections

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- If you're going to be a user of the internet and you want to connect to the internet, odds are good. You're going to be using what we call a broadband connection. Broadband connections are the typical way we connect. Cables, DSL, sometimes wireless, sometimes even satellites. So, I want to cover those in this episode. Now, the important thing about broadband versus dial-up is, broadband isn't always on connection. You're pretty much always connected to the internet, even when you're not at your computer. It's still connected and ready to go, ready for you whenever you need it. So let's start with probably the granddaddy of all, DSL. Now, DSL stands for digital subscriber line, and it was one of the earliest versions of broadband and it worked because it piggybacked on top of telephone lines to give you a digital service. So you could still have a regular telephone on that line, but it added more signal that was a digital signal. Now, what I have in front of me here is a DSL modem…

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