About Your Internet Service Provider (ISP)

YOUR ISP NEEDS TO HAVE SPEED

If you are viewing this page or have access to the Internet you are using some type of ISP.

An Internet service provider (ISP, also called Internet access provider, or IAP) is any company that offers its customers access to the Internet. The ISP connects to its customers using a data transmission technology appropriate for delivering Internet Protocol datagrams, such as dial-up, DSL, cable modem, wireless or dedicated high-speed interconnects.

ISPs may provide Internet e-mail accounts to users which allow them to communicate with one another by sending and receiving electronic messages through their ISPs’ servers. (As part of their e-mail service, ISPs usually offer the user an e-mail client software package, developed either internally or through an outside contract arrangement.) ISPs may provide other services such as remotely storing data files on behalf of their customers, as well as other services unique to each particular ISP.

Typical types of ISP connections are:

* Dial-up
Dial-up connections are not recommended if you plan on running a website business. The transfer rate of information (data) is extremely slow and often prone to disconnects, resulting in failed transfers of files that are to be uploaded to, or downloaded from the Internet. Dial-up Internet access is a form of Internet access via telephone lines. The user’s computer or router uses an attached modem connected to a telephone line to dial into an Internet service provider’s (ISP) node to establish a modem-to-modem link, which is then used to route Internet Protocol packets between the user’s equipment and hosts on the Internet. The typical speed of a dial-up connection is usually no more than 56 kilobits per second (kbit/s). Should you be using a dial-up connection and plan on starting a website home income business you should upgrade to a faster service (if offered), or change your ISP if it does not offer a faster connection and data transfer rate.

* DSL
DSL or xDSL is a family of technologies that provides digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network. DSL originally stood for digital subscriber loop, but as of 2009 the term digital subscriber line has been widely adopted as a more marketing-friendly term for ADSL, the most popular version of consumer-ready DSL. DSL can be used at the same time and on the same telephone line with regular telephone, as it uses high frequency bands, while regular telephone uses low frequency.

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The download speed of consumer DSL services typically ranges from 256 kbit/s to 24,000 kbit/s, depending on DSL technology, line conditions and service-level implementation. If planning on creating a home business using the Internet this should be the minimum type of service to use. You will have few problems and computer work with a website can be completed without extended delay or problems.

* Broadband wireless access
According to the 802.16-2004 standard, broadband means ‘having instantaneous bandwidth greater than around 1 MHz and supporting data rates greater than about 1.5 Mbit/s. This means that Wireless Broadband features speeds roughly equivalent to wired broadband access, such as that of ADSL or a cable modem.

* Cable Internet
In telecommunications, cable Internet access (often called simply cable Internet) is a form of broadband Internet access that uses the cable television (CATV) infrastructure. Like digital subscriber lines and Fiber to the premises, cable Internet access provides network edge connectivity (Last mile access) from the Internet service provider to an end user. It is integrated into the cable television infrastructure analogously to DSL which uses the existing telephone network. CATV networks and telecommunications networks are the two predominant forms of residential Internet access. Recently, both have seen increased competition from fiber deployments, wireless, and mobile networks.

* FTTH
Fiber to the x (FTTx) is a generic term for any broadband network architecture that uses optical fiber to replace all or part of the usual metal local loop used for last mile telecommunications. This generic term originates as the generalization of several configurations of fiber deployment (FTTN, FTTC, FTTB, FTTH…), all starting by FTT but differentiated by the last letter, which is substituted by an x in the generalization.

* Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi is a wireless connection to the Internet. Wi-Fi is used by most personal computer operating systems, many video game consoles, laptops, smartphones, printers, and other peripherals. All systems that use Wi-Fi must be equipped for wireless use.

Wi-Fi uses both single carrier direct-sequence spread spectrum radio technology (part of the larger family of spread spectrum systems) and multi-carrier OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) radio technology. The regulations for unlicensed spread spectrum enabled the development of Wi-Fi, its onetime competitor HomeRF, Bluetooth, and many other products such as some types of cordless telephones.