Cable TV Companies Bring True High Speed Internet Access Home

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The Internet provides a great number of opportunities for entertainment, connecting with
friends and business associates, getting an education, tracking investments, and finding
great deals while shopping. With all of these advantages, you probably want to have a
high speed Internet connection in your home if you don't have one there already. While
upgrading from dial up is a good thing to do, you're probably kind of confused by the
options that you have available to you. This is understandable with all of the different
technologies and the companies that are offering them that you have to choose from.

If you're fortunate enough to have access to cable TV, then you're also probably
fortunate enough to be able to get an Internet connection that's delivered over that same
broad band digital cable technology. Granted that if you have access to cable Internet,
then you also probably have access to DSL, satellite, and possibly some kind of
municipal WiFi Internet as well, but there are still a lot of reasons to consider broad band
cable.

The first advantage that broad band cable has over other forms of broad band Internet
technology is speed. With the possible exception of muni WiFi, broad band cable high
speed Internet has the largest bandwidths with download speeds that vary from six to
twelve megabytes per second, depending on the level of service that's been subscribed
to and whether or not the special Power Boost feature (which increases the baseline
download speed by fifty percent for larger downloads) has kicked in. Both satellite
Internet and DSL have bandwidths that are stuck around three megabytes per second
and often quite lower, depending on where you live and how much you're willing to pay.

Getting your Internet connection over a cable also provides a greater level of security
than any kind of WiFi. In fact, there are even people who look for WiFi connections so
that they can see what's being transmitted- in effect spying on what WiFi users are
looking at. Since there isn't a good way to make muni WiFi service secure, this is a very
real danger. It's also theoretically possible to spy on satellite Internet signals as well.

Naturally, since DSL is transmitted over phone lines, it has a similar level of security to
broad band digital cable Internet connection, but there are many other ways in which an
Internet connection based on digital cable technology is superior. The fact that cables
are a lot beefier than phone lines means that the signal that can be sent over them is a
lot faster and more reliable. After all, skinny phone lines are subject to a lot more
interference than coaxial cables and that interference can really slow things down.

All of the extra speed and reliability and security that you can get from a broad band
cable Internet connection such as Comcast's translates into a level of Internet
performance that you've probably only experienced in libraries, coffee shops, or at work
up to this point.

The Internet is an increasingly vital part of everyday life and this technology can help
you make the most of it.

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