I was talking to my father the other day. He was having problems trying to grasp how high speed internet is faster than slower connections. In Internet Connectivity Solutions, a faster speed does not mean that it gets somewhere faster per say. Think of it like this, lets say that you currently live in Indiana. You are looking at a website that the people who own that website are in Califorina. When you go to that page, lets say www.onlinestore.com, your computer requests and recieves infromation from California server. If you have DSL or if you have dial up, it takes the same amount of time for that information to travel the distance from California.
So how exatly is your connection faster? If you have a straw and a paper towl tube the exact same length setting side by side. If you drop a tiny marble in the top of each at the same time, both marbles will hit the bottem at the same time. If you have the same straw and paper towl tube, and you want to put 20 marbles through both of them each, you can drop all 20 tiny marbles through the paper towl tube at once, but you're limited to one marble at a time through the straw. This is how your internet connection works. The higher the speed, the wider the tube which we often refer to as bandwidth. So if you have two different computers at the same time loading a webpage that has two pictures on it and one computer is on dial-up and the other is on xDSL. The dial up computer is limited to receiving a fraction of one picture at one time, where the dsl computer can fit both pictures at the same time. This is a simple analogy of how to visualize "faster" when talking about how Internet connectivity solutions works.
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So how exatly is your connection faster? If you have a straw and a paper towl tube the exact same length setting side by side. If you drop a tiny marble in the top of each at the same time, both marbles will hit the bottem at the same time. If you have the same straw and paper towl tube, and you want to put 20 marbles through both of them each, you can drop all 20 tiny marbles through the paper towl tube at once, but you're limited to one marble at a time through the straw. This is how your internet connection works. The higher the speed, the wider the tube which we often refer to as bandwidth. So if you have two different computers at the same time loading a webpage that has two pictures on it and one computer is on dial-up and the other is on xDSL. The dial up computer is limited to receiving a fraction of one picture at one time, where the dsl computer can fit both pictures at the same time. This is a simple analogy of how to visualize "faster" when talking about how Internet connectivity solutions works.
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