4.3.2 - The Internet - Connecting to the Internet
- Created by: Annie
- Created on: 28-04-13 19:16
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- Connecting to the Internet
- Mobile
- Advantages
- Available anywhere with mobile signal
- Can research things immediately - whilst you remember!
- Can immediately respond to emails without being at home or in the office
- Disadvantages
- High speed 3G access is focused on towns and cities
- HSDPA (High Speed Data Packet Access) is less common
- Some people may be restricted to GPRS or EDGE
- This is enough to make a phone call but is really slow
- Some areas may have no or a patchy service
- It may become difficult to 'escape' work
- Mobile contracts may make accessing the internet expensive
- Greater risk of being hacked
- High speed 3G access is focused on towns and cities
- Internet provided through the mobile network
- Majority of the country has 3G (similar to Broadband)
- Internet, websites & emails are accessible also many popular websites are optimised for mobile use
- Computers can be connected with mobile internet with the use of a dongle
- All internet features are available to computers using a dongle
- Advantages
- Dial Up
- A modem converts the computer's digital signal into analogue for sending down the telephone line and converts incoming analogue into digital signals for the comptuer
- Advantages
- It is available from all standard telephone lines
- Disadvantages
- Speed: The dial up connection is very slow meaning webpages load slowly and it's almost impossible to stream TV
- Broadband
- Is available to users within 5km of a telephone exchange
- It uses the higher available bandwidth in a standard telephone line
- Broadband is 20-200x faster than dial up
- Uses fully digital signals to allow online TV streaming and faster file transfer downloads
- Advantages
- TV streaming and ability to download multimedia files quickly
- Telephone can be used whilst on the internet
- Can play real time games against other computer users
- Video conferencing calls can be made
- Many people can use the same internet connection at the same time
- Always connected if the router is connected
- Disadvantages
- Higher monthly subscription
- Limited geographical availability
- Mobile
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