Internet Service Types

Question 1

What is a Broadband Internet Connection? and list 3 types of Broadband connections?

Answer 1

• Is a high speed internet connection that that doesn’t require dial-up internet connection (entering a phone number and having a dial up modem to connect to a telephone line) connection.
• High speed internet connection that doesn’t require a dial up modem and entering of a phone number to connect to a network via telphone lines.
  1. DSL
  2. Cable Internet
  3. Optical Fiber

Question 2

What is a Dial Up Connection?

Answer 2

Dial Up connection is a way of connecting to a network via a telephone line by entering a phone number, through which a modem will then connect to an ISP to establish a conenction to the network.

Question 3

What is a DSL connection? List two important functions of this broadband.

Answer 3

Is modern equivalent (broadband) of a dial up connection except that the connection is always ‘on’, doesn’t require the entering of a number and has a modem that connects to existing telephone lines.

Can connect to internet and make phone calls.

Question 4

What is a Cable Internet Connection?

Answer 4

Is a type of broadband that uses a coaxial cable and modem to provide a fast internet connection. Faster than a DSL connection.

Question 5

What is Fiber Optic Cable connection?

Answer 5

• Is the use of glass tube cables that transmit data in the form of light, provides the fastest connection known to be provided to the internet.

Question 6

What are 3 wireless ways of connecting to the internet?

Answer 6

• Cellular
• Satelite
• Radio Frequency

Question 7

What is Cellular? List two examples of cellular connections

Answer 7

• Is a wireless connection method that uses radio transmissions from cell towers to enable phone calls, test messages, and connection to the internet for mobile devices.
• Different types of cellular connections such as 5G which provides speeds up to 20Gbps and 4g which provides around 14Mbps.

Question 8

What is RF wireless Broadband connection? How are signals generated?

Answer 8

Use of electromagnetic waves to provide access to a broadband internet connection via a radio receiver, transmitter and antenna.

• Receiver in devices receives and decodes the signal.
• Transmitter generates the signal from a base tower.
• Antenna radiates the signal from the base tower.

Question 9

What is a Satelite Broadband conncetion?

Answer 9

Use of a satelite dish to generate a broadband connection from anywhere on the planet assuming there is an orbital satelite in position to connect to via RF signals.