ind that for the same price ADSL offers slower download/upload speeds (Nismojjang, 2002). Also with most ADSL services they require a one year contract. Cable Broadband services do not. All this definitely shows Cable Broadband to have a very reasonable cost.Most would wonder, How much faster is Cable Broadband? Why do I need it? The answer is simple. According to Gary Arlen Theres an upcoming generation of consumers who will demand bigger bandwidth, thanks to their college encounter. (2002, para. 11). Cable Broadband can produce download speeds up to 2Mbps (35 times faster than a 56bps modem) and up to 384Kbps uploads (six times faster than a 56Kbps modem) (http://www.earthlink.net/home/broadband/cable/tw/speed/). Speeds such as these are just Mind boggling to me. There is one slight set back for speed on a Cable Broadband system. That glitch is the fact that Cable modems are a shared bandwidth system (Does Shared Bandwidth Make Cable Modems Slow?, 1998). What this generally means is that people share bandwidth with their neighbors. So the more users logged on in that neighborhood the more potential for speeds to slow down. However, even with the slowdown it is still faster than a 56Kbps modem and only for a very short time thank to the new technologies in information transfers. In the end Cable Broadband is very fast when it comes down to it.We now know the pricing and speeds for Cable Broadband and how they compare to some common services. Even so, there are still other benefits to going to Cable Broadband. It all pretty much has to do with the connection. For those people who still are using a dial-up service the benefits of not having to dial-up their Internet Service Provider (ISP) is quite evident. With Cable Broadband your connection, it is always on (http://www.earthlink.net/home/broadband/cable/tw/benefits/). That means no more having to wait for long initiation procedures or busy signals from their ISP. Th...
