Is broadband faster than dial up?
Posted on June 25, 2010
Broadband is known as a high speed Internet access with the ability to transmit 200 kilobits per second. Dial up, on the other hand, can transmit around 56 Kbps, a lot smaller and less reliable if you need to download a large file etc.
Besides the speed of the Internet and its connection, another major difference between wireless broadband and dial up is that broadband is usually always on. With dial up you have to manually connect yourself then wait several seconds for it to connect before you are online. With broadband, including DSL, Cable and Satellite the connection is made when your computer is turned on and will remain connected until you do something to disconnect it or your Internet Service Provider (ISP) experiences technical difficulties.
In most cases, broadband is preferable to dial up simply because it is so much faster and convenient to use. However price and availability of high speed Internet providers seem to be the main factors which keep dial up ISP’s in business. As of the end of 2006, only about 70 per cent of U.S. residences had either cable or DSL available to them.
Many rural areas stick with dial up as they don’t have access to broadband and are happy with sticking with dial up.
If you are looking to switch to wireless Internet and don’t know how to go about it then why not speak to the UK’s leading comparison site in broadband and mobile phones, Top10.com. The staff on hand ready to take your call and answer all your queries and questions about broadband and how it can benefit you. The website is not affiliated to any ISP so they can offer impartial advice about all the packages available.
iPhone 4, the best smart phone yet?
Posted on June 10, 2010
There are plenty of different smartphones on the market at the minute, infact its quite the craze to have a smartphone, but the big boys have answered their critics with their latest release, the iPhone 4. Officially released in the UK on the 24th of June it is sure to be a big hit with Orange, O2 and Vodafone customers.
Going off when the iPhone 3GS was released the cheapest model will be the 16GB version at around £199 if the customer signs up to a 2 year deal. There may better iPhone 4 deals around but that will entail you having to look around for these deals. Many companies will be offering some iPhone 4 offers with things like free gifts upon delivery of your new handset.
The handset is a staggering 9.33mm thick so Apple can now proudly boast that they are the makers of the worlds thinnest smartphone with HD video recording, video calling, a 5 mega pixel camera and a vastly improved battery life. The improved battery life is down to the iPhone 4 having the same Apple A4 processor chip as the iPad which improves the efficiency and in effect should improve the battery life of the handset.
Compare all this to the smartphones that are available on the market at the minute and you will probably find a few of the handsets have some of these features but none of them will have all of the features that the iPhone 4 has, and as it is officially the thinnest smartphone in the world then what better phone is there to have? None other than the brand new iPhone 4.
Nintendo Wii
Posted on May 20, 2010Nintendo Wii
The Nintendo Wii is the latest games console to be released by Nintendo after the Nintendo Game Cube, it was at the time the first of its kind, in the way of motion controlled games consoles until the Play station 3 was released and it was revealed that they had a motion controller, the Sixaxis motion controller. This was Sony’s attempt at rivalling Nintendo’s Wii remote or as they so cannily named it, the Wiimote. This was the unusual, but yet stand out feature about the Wii it plays sound and it also has force feedback which enable the user to feel motions and vibrations when they are playing games like golf, and tennis.
As Nintendo so kindly explained the “Wii” console pronounced “We”, denotes that the console is for everyone other than the fact that the name itself is universally recognised and understood, yet in almost every walk of society it is a word used when going to relieve one’s self.
The Wii is almost everything that you could ask for with its small, light and compact design. It is approximately the size of three DVD cases stacked together, which is ideal for having hiding away under your TV and it being near enough unnoticeable, unlike Microsoft’s Xbox and Sony’s Play Station 3, which are rather large in comparison.
The Wii is a good console to get out at family BBQ’s as there are plenty of different activities to partake in on the Wii, things that will no doubt tick most people’s boxes things like Ten pin bowling and Tennis, and even boxing for those testosterone full males wanting to show off to their female compadre’s that they aree like “well hard”.
All round I would say that the Nintendo Wii is by far the best console in recent years to be released by our friends over at Nintendo in Kyoto, Japan. A fun loving, active and just a generally fun console which is sure to be a hit with not only the kids but the whole family alike!