DrModem
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USA | Must you call it broadband?
Satellite is not broadband... it is just internet. Just like you wouldn't refer to dialup internet as "Dialup Broadband" |
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Brigrat
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Lovington, NM | Just out of curiosity, why do you think it is not broadband? it has the same throughput and bandwidth of DSL in many areas, albeit with higher latency? |
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Piggie
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said by DrModem  :Satellite is not broadband... it is just internet. Just like you wouldn't refer to dialup internet as "Dialup Broadband"
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!! |
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MysticGogeta
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Well as much as I dislike the FCC I will use their definition
The term broadband commonly refers to high-speed Internet access. The FCC defines broadband service as data transmission speeds exceeding 200 kilobits per second (Kbps), or 200,000 bits per second, in at least one direction: downstream (from the Internet to the user’s computer) or upstream (from the user’s computer to the Internet).
This satellite will deliver plenty more then this so it is broadband internet. Dialup is 56 kilobits per second hence not referred to as broadband according to the FCC and is generally accepted to not be called broadband.
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DrModem
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Broadband in my book:
To be broadband, it must:
- Have data speeds comparable to DSL, Cable etc
- Have latency comparable to decent quality DSL, cable etc (on this, satellite fails)
- Have stability comparable to decent quality DSL, cable etc, which is in my experience with both around 95% uptime (on this, satellite fails: watch it die in fog, rain, snow, sleet, cloud cover, and when you accidentally bump the dish)
- Have stable speeds (on this, satellite fails except at 2am)
- Have priceing comparable to DSL, cable etc (on this, satellite fails: $700+ install anyone? Not to mention from what I've heard from alot of satellite users here, first install usally fails) |
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
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Well broadband had a term before the internet came about. It was then co-opted by the internet crowd. |
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jfmezei
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The original definition of broadband was the use a medium (such as coax) with have multible separate channels, each operating at different frequency ranges.
This was in contrast with baseband where the medium had one channel encompassing a single frequency range and multiple users shared that one channel either in time division or stat mux.
your residential cable is considered boadband because it carried different channels of information on different frequency ranges. (your analogue TV channels, each on different frequencies, as well as internet service also in its own frequency range).
The term "broadband" for internet came from the fact that the first high speed internet service came from the cable companies whose media (the coax) is used in a broadband fashion.
"broadband" for internet was probably coined by mistake by clueless bimbos on news^H^H^H^Hentertainment channels like CNN etc and the term stuck.
Not all coax is broadband. 3270 terminals used baseband coax, as did ethernet when it was on coax (thin and thick wire).
mobile phones are hybrids. They have multiple channels, each occupying a different frequency range, but each channel also multiplexes different connections (GSM with time division, CDMA with collision detection/retransmission).
Boradband was genereally meant to say that the medium useed a wider spectrum of frequencies versus baseband that used a narrower range of frequencies. |
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