Broadband internet access

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The term broadband refers to a telecommunications signal or device of greater bandwidth ¿ with at least 256 Kbps (Kilobits per second) ¿ than another standard or usual signal or device. Prior to the invention of home broadband internet connections, dial-up internet was the only mean by which one could access the internet to download songs, movies, or send e-mails. It took up about 10-30 minutes to download one song of 3.5 megabytes (MB) and over 28 hours to download a movie of 700MB. With the arrival of broadband internet access, downloading times reduced considerably as it was more than ten times faster than dial-up...