1. What is broadband?
Broadband can be classified as an internet connection that is faster than dial up.
2. What units are used to measure bandwidth?
Bandwidth can be measured using:
· bits (b or bit)
· Kilobits (kb)
· Megabits (Mb)
· Gigabytes (GB)
· Megabytes (MB)
· Megabytes per second (MBps)
· Megabits ber second (Mbps)
· Kilobits per second (kbs)
( a ‘byte’ is much bigger than a ‘bit’ e.g. megabyte and megabit
4. What are the speeds that broadband operates at compared to dial up?
Dial up has a data transfer rate of 56 kbs while broadband has a data transfer rate of 256 kbs.
3. How much faster is broadband than dial?
Broadband is 200 kbs faster than dial up. This shows that broadband is in fact the faster option.
5. What are some of the advantages of using a broadband connection to download something like a video compared to dial up?
Broadband connection will download the video much faster than a dial up connection. Using a dial up connection could take hours, even a whole day while broadband will download the video at a much quicker speed.
6. Create an image in paint that illustrates how a high bandwidth connection can move more data compared to a dial up connection at a given time.
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