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Exploring the possibilities

Since the rise of the internet age, the promise of one-click entry to unlimited information on almost every topic imaginable has more or less come true. A regular Internet user with a typical 56kbps modem connection can already access a wealth of data that would shame your local bookstore or library.

Dial-up frustrations

Eventually, an insatiable craving for interactivity and a sense of participation in the global web community, going beyond message board posts and email, have pushed the dial-up modem to its technical limits. With video chat and conferencing, an ever increasing number of Java and Flash enabled sites, movie and audio streaming, internet radio broadcasts and webcasts, it became quite clear that an ordinary 56k modem just isn’t up to the task of delivering the huge internet through the user’s desktop.

Broadband, for the consumer, was created on the premise of actually bringing the Internet, in all its myriad forms, though the fastest way possible to every home computer on the planet. Explore Broadband hopes to explain the underlying technology that makes broadband work and how such technology can benefit you, the consumer. For a vast majority of people looking to use broadband internet for business or home use, it all comes down to the extra speed.

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