Broadband's Unintended Consequences

Makarand writes "BBC News is reporting on the result of a long term study conducted to find how ordinary people and small businesses in and around London and Leeds used broadband. They found that broadband was actually slowing down user interaction with the Net as they are no longer afraid of spending too much time online anymore. People did not really care about the speed at which they could download from the Net. Broadband's selling points- like speed and the capacity to be always-on, were something that the average person did not care about."

Comments

BROADBAND IS NOT FAST

[acoustix]

Dammit, get it through your thick heads!

Broadband = multiple analog signals on 1 wire. That's it nothing more, nothing less. Broadband means that they are several communications going on at the same time all using a different frequency range.

Broadband is not a description of speed, it is the form of how the signals are sent.

Dialup modems (like 28.8kbps) are a broadband connection.
14.4kbps fax is a broadband connection.
Cable modems (all speeds) are broadband connections.

Are LANs broadband? No. Are they fast? Yes. They are baseband (digital) connections (like ethernet).