10 Things you can do with Broadband Internet
Thanks to lower prices and increased availability, broadband (high speed) Internet is starting to over take dial-up services in the United States. Dial-up Internet served us well for the first 10 years of the Internet, but to really take advantage of the Internet today, a broadband connection is a must.
Here are 10 things that you can do with a high speed connection today that you can’t do (as easily) with a dial-up service:
- Keep up to date with Windows and Internet security updates automatically
- Google Earth
- Download music (legally) at sites like Napster, iTunes, and Rhapsody
- Receive and make phone calls while on the Internet…without an extra line!
- Watch online news or information videos or listen to online music or news casts without waiting and without the choppiness and stuttering of a dial-up connection
- I know many people don’t think that speed matters…but with broadband, the Internet becomes much more of a resource tool than a novelty.
- Upload pictures to printing services to either be picked up or mailed to you.
- Watch movie trailers
- Save time…you can do four times as much research or work with a broadband connection in half the time.
- Make free or extremely inexpensive phone calls and video phone calls.
Admittedly, many of these functions can be carried out with a dial-up connection, but studies and my experience have shown that people don’t do these things. The reason? Time. For example, a broadband user can download a song in under 3 minutes. The same song takes nearly 25 minutes with a dial-up connection. Services like Google Earth can take up to 10 or more minutes to start with dial-up.