Yea so i was just wondering what are all the advantages and disadvantage of all the internet connections available........
Satellite- if you live in the country where nothing is available. You get 55,000 miles of lag per transmission and it is effected by just about everything(weather, solar events, wind)
Cable- This is the most popular option right now.. Advantages: Fast speeds for cheap. Disadvantages: You share you connection with your neighbors. So if someone was downloading movies they are going to take potential bandwidth that could be used.
Ethernet (sure i have cable that plugs in by ETHERNET) - This is for normally used if you are located near a sonnet ring.. I know that you can get this in Indianapolis, IN. Normally it is used for business that requires 100Mbps/1Gbps connections.
ADSL- Allows for one transmission speed to be faster than the other.. It is like cable in the way that they make their plan.. like 3000/256.. One will be higher than the other.. The disadvantage is that it is over copper from the teleco.. So you are going to have to be with in a distance of the CO... Otherwise you are out of luck. Also interference and line noise can drastically reduce the speed of the line overall.
DSL- Same as above.
ISDN- This is old school before all of the newer broadband options came out.. You have 2x64Kbps channels. You can either upload/download on one channel making the total bandwidth 128Kbps. or use the channels independently so one for upload and one for download. There is also a signaling channel that control stuff for the telco that runs at 16kbit/s.. Removes the signaling from the physical channels something that T1 doesnt do.
T-1 - This is the basic office type connection.. It consists of 24 ds-0 channels.. each channel is 64kbit/s so 24*64= 1.536Mbps which is the usable speed! 1.544 speed has the framing bit per channel included bring the speed to 1.544. Again the max that you can get is 1.536Mbps.. This is delivered via copper or fiber to the location. Since it is basically 24 phone lines make into one huge connection you can get frac-T1 and just get a selection of those line activated. Even though you do frac-T1 the entire connection is delivered.. North America standard is DS-1/T1 at 1.544Mbps Europe and the rest of the world have E-1 which is 2.048Mbps
T-3- This standard for the data center of if you have enough traffic to plug up a 45Mbps line. The actual speed is 44.736Mbps.. It is called DS-3/T-3.. and is normally delivered via coax.. Normally you have to have a sonic ring near by... This means that you pretty much have the sonic ring run into the building and then you just place your traffic on to the ring. Europe is E3 at 34.368mpbs.
Hope that helps..
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