What is Broadband?
Benefits of Broadband
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Broadband is a technology that enables you to get high speed Internet access from your existing ordinary telephone line. For a fixed monthly fee and no online charges most UK households and businesses can benefit from Broadband.
Broadband can deliver the Internet to you at 10, 20, 40 or even up to 400 times faster than a standard modem. Broadband gives you easy and affordable access to some of the best content on the web - including movies, audio, games and much more.
High Speed Internet Access without engaging your phone line for voice calls.
No online charges - with your Broadband connection all Internet connectivity is included in the flat
rate charge. This allows you to control your Internet budget.
Permanently connected. This means that you can keep your connection in use for up to 24 hours a day without
having to worry about being 'timed-out'. However, if you want to drop the connection yourself, you can.
"Real-time" e-mail - as you are permanently connected your incoming/outgoing emails will be sent/received in "Real-time".
Over 99% of UK households are now connected to a Broadband enabled exchange.
The introduction of Extended Reach Technology has significantly extended the geographical reach of Broadband around each enabled exchange.
Previously, broadband was available only to those customers who lived within 3.5 km of an Broadband enabled exchange. However the introduction of Extended
Reach broadband means that customers can now be based up to 5.5 km away.
There are a number of factors that will determine whether or not your telephone line can be broadband enabled:
Firstly, you need to check that your local exchange has been Broadband enabled.
Thereafter, once you have placed your order, your telephone line will be subject to further line tests to establish if it will support Broadband and if so at which speed.
The outcome of line tests result is affected by several factors: the distance from the exchange, line quality, existence of line sharing devices, telecom switches and security alarms etc.
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ADSL stands for Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line. It transforms a twisted
copper pair of wires between a local telephone exchange and a customer's telephone socket into a high-speed digital line. It is called "asymmetric" because it moves data more quickly from the exchange
to the customer (download speed); rather than from the customer to the exchange (upload speed). This makes it particularly suitable for applications where customers expect to receive more data than
they transmit such as use of the World Wide Web, corporate Intranets,
and reception of digital audio-visual material.
ADSL Broadband operates over a normal telephone line. This means that there is no
need to dig up any roads to install it. The ADSL Broadband signal is carried by two ADSL modems - one in the end user's
premises and one in the local exchange. These ADSL modems are designed to
exploit the physical transmission capabilities of the copper line, to
achieve the higher data rates.
SDSL stands for Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line. It is called "symmetric" because it moves data quickly and at the same rate from the exchange
to the customer (download speed) as it does from the customer to the exchange (upload speed). This makes it particularly
suitable for applications where customers expect to send and receive similar amounts of data. A new and dedicated line is provided for SDSL packages.
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