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[h3]What use is Broadband.[/h3] The essence of having a broadband connection, is not so much that it is faster, more that it is always on and available. This means that you come to use it in a different way than dial-up internet. It becomes your library, your streetmaps, your telephone directory etc etc [a]http://www.datahighways.net/entry.asp[/a]. Furthermore you can set your email program to automatically fetch your email every 30 mins or so, such that email no longer becomes a poste-restante service, but a delivered-to-your-door service instead. I also use Digiguide [a]http://www.digiguide.com/[/a] so that I no longer buy the Radio Times or TV times etc and my computer actually speaks to me to remind me that such&such a TV program is about to start. And of course you can set your computer to fetch anti-virus information and update your anti-virus software overnight while you sleep and also if you use Windows you can set it to fetch the patches (corrections) from Microsoft every night so that your computer is safer against hackers and Viruses. Which brings me to my last point, If you have a broadband connection, it is essential that you run good antivirus program such as AVG [[a]http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php[/a]] to remove viruses and a firewall to stop hackers & worm-viruses from using your computer. If you have Windows-XP it has a built-in Firewall adequate for ordinary users, for earlier Windows 2000 or Windows98 or WindowsMe you can install Kerio Personal Firewall. [[a]http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_avg_kpfb.php[/a]] and [[a]http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html[/a]].I gave brief instructions for Kerio on another topic here [[a]http://www.datahighways.net/support/topic.asp?topic_id=124&forum_id=20[/a]]. [h3]Speed[/h3] The speed of the final link is (almost certainly) at least 10 times as fast as a former modem connection, but you may find that web servers in particular are not 10 times as fast as you imagined they might be. Your speed may also be limited if the ISP that provides your broadband connection, does not itself have a wide enough connection to the rest of the Internet. [[a]http://www.adslguide.org.uk/newsarchive.asp?item=1490[/a]] The broadband speed advantage really shows up when downloading a big file. Bill. Revised on 21 Sep 2006
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