FIRST:
The process you go through with a dial up
connection:Imagine you get home from work and you want
to use your dial up internet connection to check your email, pay some bills and
look up the footy results.
a)You will first plug in the wire to your phone
socket, if it is not already done so
b)You will holler to your family or
flatmates that you are using the internet and tell them not to pick up the
phone.
c)You will dial up to your internet
service provider
Internet Providers
(which most
likely will cost you a local call)
d)You will wait 5 or 10 seconds for your
homepage to load up.
e)You will methodically go through in your head all the
things you need to do, like a checklist, before you have to disconnect the
internet.
f)Each task will take some time.
g)You shout out to the others
in the house ‘does anyone want to use the internet before I disconnect’
i)You
disconnect your dial-up internet connection.
The total process of
Dial Up has been a thought out strategy to help you get the most out of
when you dial up to the world wide web. It is a long, drawn out process which
takes time, effort and costs you a local call to make a connection every time -
and while you are using it - your landline cannot be
used.
SECOND: The process you go through with a BroadBand Internet
connection:Imagine you get home from work and you want
to use your Broadband Internet connection to check your email, pay some bills
and look up the footy results.
a)The connection is ALWAYS ON – like your
water supply, or electricity supply.
b)Your emails are all downloaded and
waiting for you – they arrive as soon as sent
c)You open a page in a
web browser, which has ‘almost instant’ appearance.
d)You have 5 mins before
your TV show starts – so you click on a link to watch your team scoring a goal.
It plays almost instantly, streaming on your computer screen. – You send the
link to your mates.
e)You leave your computer desk and watch the TV.
f)You
hear the reply to an email you were waiting for with links to download some
music. The music files are 5 MB each.
g)You start downloading
them, knowing it will only take only 1 minute each one.
h)While they are
downloading – you are bored of TV, so you pick up your landline phone and call
you mate to discuss the footy video you sent a link to him about – all whilst
the internet is still downloading.
So - Broadband Internet is
simply your normal dial up connection – on a very large dose of caffeine
and always on. It is a
very high speed internet connection, which you never have to dial up
with or disconnect when you are finished. Always on, always
fast, always available - just like your water supply, gas or
electricity. Broadband Internet is a ready, waiting, communication
service that sits in your home awaiting you to jump on and use it for any length
of time – at any time. AND - Your phone works at the same
time. (imagine if everytime you got up to make a cup of tea -
you had to connect the water mains, turn on the tap, pour out the
water that you need to use for the next hour and then disconnect again - it
would drive you mad!. Broadband takes away that frustration that you find
with Dial Up)
