Who's the Fairest of Them All?

Demands for Internet access are gradually rising and so is the expectation among Internet service providers. Many Internet connection options have been introduced since the advent of the Internet, from dial-up to high-speed Internet. Let's have a look at these connections and their development throughout the years.

First up is the dial-up Internet connection. A dial-up connection is a form of Internet connection that uses the telephone lines. The computer or router uses the modem attached to a telephone line to dial into the Internet service provider's node to establish a link that then routes Internet Protocol packets between the user and Internet hosts. Performance of dial-up connection differs depending on the condition of the telephone lines. Environments with "noisy" telephone lines experience lags on their connection due to the traffic caused by sharing of lines. Dial-up connection lost their popularity when the Broadband Internet connection was introduced.

Broadband Internet access is often called high-speed Internet due to the faster data exchange rate that it provides. This connection works almost like cable TV. The cable provides an amount of storage for transmitting data. This space is known as "bandwidth"�. Broadband start-up cost is almost the same as that of the dial-up connection which contributed to its sudden popularity among Internet users.

Nowadays, more and more ways of Internet connections are being developed, satellite Internet, wireless Internet, and mobile web just to name a few. Certainly, Internet has a bright future ahead.