Comparing Broadband, dial up, and DSL 5 Articles

by Akshay Maheshwari

Do you find yourself waiting around for your Internet pages to load or digital photo files and other attachments to transfer? Do your friends and family complain that they can never get through on the phone line because yo...read more

by Josh Doan

Dial-up vs DSL vs 'Broadband' Preface: For the sake of this article the term 'Broadband', as opposed to DSL, is going to be considered as referring to a DOCSIS Cable Modem connection. I'm not going to play in defining t...read more

by Reviewrz

Firstly, what do these three terms mean? Broadband is a method of Internet access where your data is transmitted over a high bandwidth line, usually a fiber optic cable. Dial up allows access to the Internet via traditiona...read more

by Zachary Perry

I have used both dial-up and DSL. It is convenient to be able to talk on the telephone and use DSL internet service at the same time, and DSL is substantially better for downloading large files. However, I have had much mo...read more

by Ice Paladin

Dial up is baseband, i.e. single units of data are transmitted, whereas broadband sends more than 1 unit of data per signal. This explains why broadband is a lot faster than dial up. Dial up involves a call to the ISP to e...read more