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Broadband Networking Basics

Broadband Networking Types & Basics To Help You Make The Right Decision For Sharing Internet Connections And Save You Money

Broadband networking basics and some of the issues concerning sharing a Internet connection over your broadband home network is really pretty easy to learn when you keep it simple. And actually, this is probably one of the main reasons if not the main reason, that most people set up home networks in their homes so it is worth your while to learn.

I personally thoroughly enjoy the ability of having my computers networking together and being able to share files, printers, folders etc. and of course with the added ability to do broadband networking just makes it that much more powerful and productive especially in a home where I often wonder how in the world did we ever get by without it?

Well back to our subject...

Broadband networking and sharing Internet connections allows you to have one internet source coming from your ISP (Internet service provider) and then letting all the other computers on your home network access the Internet simultaneously.

But before actually getting into some of topic and issues concerning sharing your Internet connection, I believe it will be helpful for you to become a little familiar with some of the options you have in terms of getting Internet into your home in the first place.

Broadband Networking Types Pros & Cons

I will do my best to give you the pros and cons on all types of broadband networking types and at the same time keep it simple and easy to understand.

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Dial-up Internet Connection:

The first one we will look at is your basic broadband networking or internet connection known as a dial-up connection, and anyone who has been on the internet has probably had some experience working with a dial-up Internet connection.

Broadband networking doesn't quite describe this type of connections because the source of a dial up Internet connection is your phone line. This is where you dial a number that was provided to you by your ISP (Internet service provider) and you connected to the Internet. And generally in comparison to the other connections that are available these days this is a pretty slow connection. You should expect about 56Kbs as a maximum speed, and that is just in theory. Your broadband speed can change depending on the quality of your connection or your phone line, and your speeds will definitely vary.

But over on the plus side would be that it is probably one of the least expensive methods available and a lot of service providers are even provided free these days. But it's a very, very slow connection speed. So especially if you are going to be sharing an Internet connection you will probably want to look into faster broadband networking services.

However, later on I will show you how you can share eve a dial up connection in tips and tricks. Again keep in mind that if you have multiple people trying to access the Internet all at once on your home network, a dial up will pretty much make people wait for everything.

So lets take a look at some of the other options available to us in terms of broadband networking connections, they are much faster connections to the Internet.

One of the most popular types of broadband networking connections is a cable modem connection. Cable Internet connections are usually provided by your local cable TV provider. Of course most of the time they require you to subscribe to cable TV and although some providers will allow you to get cable Internet without subscribing to their cable TV service, they will usually offer it at a price increase..

One of the main advantages of working with cable is that you have very fast speeds. You can get anywhere from 1 – 4 Mb/s (megabits per second). Sometimes professional cable services offer up to 6 Mbs in terms of download speeds. So that's much much faster than your typical dial up connection.

But a lot of cable companies, in fact most cable companies in fact lock down the upload speeds. So although you can download information to your computer really, really fast, sending files over the Internet especially large files could still take awhile.

Of course it is not as slow as a dial-up is going to be, but a lot of companies still clamped down on those speeds because they don't want people hosting web servers out of their homes..

Broadband networking internet connection deal and offers are best found by checking with your local cable company to a see what they offer in the way of packages which often save you some money. Some of them offer, for more money of course the ability to have faster upload speeds if you need it.

So the advantages are you have what they call fast burst speeds, which meaning that at the right times of the day you will have very fast downloads speeds and relatively fast upload speeds.

One of the main disadvantages of working with a cable broadband networking connection is that you share your broadband connection with the other people in your neighborhood. In other words, you are all connected to what's called the same node on that cable connection or same source for internet service..

So you often find that if a lot of people subscribe to the cable company's broadband service in your neighborhood, that during peak hours, for instance when the kids come home from school, or the evening hours after dinner, you will probably find that your cable broadband connection slows down a bit. But during off-peak hours, the early hours of the morning you will probably find yourself at pretty much the full speeds that are available to you.

And of course whether or not it is available in your area is another question and get be a negative. Some cable companies have not upgraded their cable systems yet and cable broadband networking might not even be available in your area. This actually happened to my mother who lives out in the desert areas almost 40 miles from the city limits, and the cable company does not have internet service available yet. In fact, we were looking to help her get a satellite dish to get her some faster speeds. I will talk about those in a moment.

DSL Broadband Networking Internet Connections:

So another option is DSL which stands for Digitals Subscriber Line and this broadband networking service is provided over your phone line. And this is by no surprise, it is also provided by your phone company.

This another popular option for people who don't have cable in the area and unlike the other broadband networking services, DSL provides you a guaranteed speed. They usually give you speeds up to 1.5 Mbs (megabits per second) both for uploads and downloads.

Although the speeds don't get quite up to a cable speeds, they at least do guarantee your speeds. So you don’t have to worry about other people sharing the same broadband networking connection in your neighborhood and especially nice about DSL is they can often give you faster upload speeds for the price.

Broadband networking advantages through DSL are fast uploads, no sharing, but again you have to check with your local phone companies to see if it's available in your area. And one of things about DSL is that the speed that you get often depends on how far away you are from the phone companies local switching station. So depending how far you are from the actual phone line station will sometimes affect your connection speed.

So usually you will have the choice of either cable or DSL, if you're lucky enough to be in an area that offers both then you have a choice to make. So you might want to call around and see what packages are available to you and what kind of speeds they can give you for the dollar.

Now if you are in an area where both cable and DSL broadband networking internet connections are not available , but you still want something a little s faster than a dial-up, you might want to look into a satellite provider. Now having a satellite connection requires you to have a satellite dish connected to your home or office.

So that can be a disadvantage depending on your own personal preference. So the source of satellite Internet service is of course from , you guessed it, a satellite dish. Now this is pretty significantly faster than dial-up but not quite as fast as your cable and DSL.

So the main issue with a satellite connection is that the upload speeds are pretty slow. Usually about 125 Kbs but again this is in theory, it can get all the way down to just barely faster than a dial-up upload speeds.

Again if cable and DSL aren't available to you, you might want to look into a satellite connection because they are available just about anywhere, it usually requires you to have an unobscured view of like the southwestern sky, but again it is a slow upload speed and it is still pretty pricey.

So those are some of the options available to you in terms of a broadband networking connections. But again just check around your area. A good place to a start with is a placed called broadbandreports.com you can enter in your ZIP code there and get reports on different Internet service providers in your area and you can read reviews by people who actually subscribed to these services in your area to help you make you decision.

So of course you do need an Internet connection if you want to share it with other people on your home network. So make a decision the best broadband networking for your needs and move onto to the page on sharing Internet connections over your home network.

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