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With our increasingly hectic lifestyles, we demand faster results from everything in life and our high speed internet service is no exception. A reliable and fast high speed internet service is now seen as being as crucial to us as the mod cons we have relied on to keep our lives in order over the last fifty or so years.
It is estimated that at the start of 2009, 10% of American’s still used a dialup service, probably out of necessity rather than choice. For the rest of us it is only when we are not able to access a high speed internet service – or have to go back to a dialup service – that we really understand what a high speed internet service really means to us.
High speed internet service vs. dialup
This is why high speed internet services are becoming increasingly popular and vendors are falling over themselves to jump on the band wagon.
Our appetite for a decent, high speed internet service is not surprising when you consider the alternative: A typical dialup connection may take up to ten seconds to download a webpage – if you’re lucky!
The main ways of getting a high speed internet service
A high speed internet service can be accessed via a DSL or cable internet service provider and what you opt for will depend largely on where you live. The cheapest high speed internet service via a DSL connection can be bought for as little as £17.99 per month; a cable high speed internet service can be purchased for around $35.00 per month; and a satellite high speed internet service is more expensive again, at around $60.00 per month. Connection/installation and hardware all vary so check prices carefully when you come to compare the high speed internet services available.
DSL, cable and satellite high speed internet services and data capabilities
Cable is the best performing high speed internet service and is seen to be the best high speed internet service overall. Speeds of 4.0 – 6.0 mbps are considered standard. DSL will maybe reach up to 7.0 and satellite up to about 5.0 on a good day.
With a fibre-optic booster cable high speed internet service providers can offer data speeds of up to a whopping 40mbps. High speed internet services still outperform wireless broadband networks, although the flexibility of being able to access the high speed internet on the move is a huge attraction with the latter.
