Is broadband faster than dial up?

Question

My mom wants to get us a faster internet but the only faster internet that is offered where I live is broadband. She doesn't want to get it unless it's faster than dial up.

So is it faster than dial up?

Answer 1

Broadband is way way way faster than dial-up network. The dial up network is **** slow as compared to BB. It's so slow that a download that takes 1 minute in BB takes around 8 to 9 minutes in dial up.

Answer 2

Dial Up means that you use an actual phone circuit to get data connectivity.  The most you can get is around 56Kbps

Broadband is a ‘broad bandwidth’ connection. It allows a large amount of data to travel through a medium at the same time. There are many opinions about what a large amount of data entails.

Everything is relative though.

I have Verizon FIOS and I get 10Mbps down and 2Mbps up (notice the M.... that is 1000 times faster than a K!)

Your going to get what you pay for.  If you pay more, you can even get larger amounts down.

You dont need much up unless you have your own webserver at home!

Download Speed depends on SOOO many things.

1)  The speed of your connection to the Internet is one of the main factors.  The faster you are, the better your chances of getting the "speed" your desiring.

2)  The distance between you and the distant end your surfing.  THe longer the distances, the bigger the chance that you will hit congestion.  If any router between you and the server your making request from is busy, your speed halts BIG TIME!  Also, what time of day is it?  Early in the morning on the east coast will usually have better surfing than later when the west coast wakes up!

3)  The type of traffic.  TCP traffic requires a response for EACH and every packet.  UDP (sound / video) doesnt care.  However, if the quality is low, you will see/hear it on your end (lagging, buffering).

4)  The speed of the distant end connection to the Internet.  Usually this is quite large since they sometimes have a server farm of services (not just one site).

5)  The final factor is how busy the site is that your making a request from.  If 1000's of people are going to it, and they only have one web server, your going to once again see your speed be diminished!

If at any point you go above 60 percent on any of the above, you start to have queuing.  Think of queuing as going into a grocery store and the manger trying to guess how many people will be shopping at any given time.  He will have so many checkout counters open.  Sometimes you will be able to walk RIGHT up, other times, he might get stuck in the queue!

Try going to:

http://www.speedtest.net/

or

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

to show what speed you are really getting.  Test it on sites that are further away and you will start to see your speed fall as you hit congestion somewhere!

Answer 3

h**l of a lot faster then dial up. depends what package you take. but it can be very fast.

google how fast can my internet be on my current line.

speed all depends on how far you live from the phone exchange.  

Answer 4

of course broadband is faster than dial up and dsl is faster than dial up too. BROADBAND IS THE BEST TO HAVE!!!

Answer 5

yes its much faster and i found out it was cheaper in my case. i was paying aol 21.99 a month for dial up and i have broadband now and its only 19.95 a month

Answer 6

Yes. Broadband is much faster. You can easily access the huge amount of broadband using contents that is on the web now. Like videos, games, etc.

Answer 7

broadband is definitly faster

Answer 8

no dip

Answer 9

Broadband is way faster than dial up...