ADSL speeds range from 512 kbit / s to the maximum speed of 1 Mbit / s through ADSL broadband.

As the speed and availability of broadband connections increase, more TV content can be delivered using protocols such as IPTV.

This limited the upstream speed to 31. 2k and prevented the always-on convenience broadband internet typically provides.

The number of broadband subscribers in Korea reached 10 million in October 2002, with about 70 % out of 14. 3 million homes connected at the speed of over 2 Mbit / s.

However, Finland ’ s minister of communications, Suvi Lindén, has demanded that TeliaSonera first commit to a list of conditions pertaining to, among others, emergency calls and broadband speed, and TeliaSonera has agreed to act accordingly.

A subscriber unit, or SU is a broadband radio that is installed at a business or residential location to connect to an access point to send / receive high speed data wired or wirelessly.

This was important because it was very expensive to provide high speed in the upstream direction, while the CATV systems already had substantial broadband capacity in the downstream direction.

Speedy also serves as current mascot for Virgin Media, a double reference to his own speed and to that of the company's fibre optic broadband.

Netflix recommends that people stream its movies over a broadband connection with a speed of at least 1. 5 megabits per second ( 1. 5 Mbit / s ), and that people use an Internet connection of at least 3 megabits per second to get better-looking video on par with a DVD.

The data showed that two-thirds of the surveyed schools were signed up for broadband service that provide less than half the speed that educational technology studies recommend and only four percent of libraries subscribe to recommended broadband speeds.

Server-oriented BitTorrent implementations can also be hosted by hosting providers at co-located facilities with high bandwidth Internet connectivity ( e. g., a datacenter ) which can provide dramatic speed benefits over using BitTorrent from a regular home broadband connection.

Recently Celcom launched their broadband service at Klang Valley with 42 Mbit / s HSPA + speed, an upgrade from the older 3. 6 Mbit / s speed.

Today these independent ISPs have largely been supplanted by high speed and broadband access through cable and phone companies, as well as wireless access.

Messengers deliver digital content on optical media or hard disks because, despite high speed broadband connections, companies find it easier to send a disc than to work out how to transmit larger amounts of data than an email account can handle.

Focus areas of OTI include wireless community networks building, the creation and management of an open source platform that supports broadband research tools and speed tests, the development of a platform ( called Commotion ) to lower barriers for building distributed communications networks, among other projects.

More services are emerging and more uses of high speed symmetrical broadband are being found, tested, developed and freely enjoyed by the users for the users.

In terms of speed and availability, Eircom exchanges can only deliver broadband to houses within in most of its exchanges and will not be investing in fibre optic or next-generation broadband, as stated in a meeting with members of Dáil Éireann in late 2008 about broadband availability.

In 2012, the village had the slowest broadband speed in the United Kingdom, with an average speed of 1. 1Mbit / s, according to a survey done by uSwitch.

Over the Internet the latency for the file request may be milliseconds, but at a modest broadband download speed of 50 kB / s it may take up to a day to complete the transfer.

In September 2009 in Flanders there were 3. 048. 260 single broadband internet customers ( DSL and cable ), of which 2. 520. 481 were residential users and 527. 779 business users.

2. 396. 700 broadband connections,

* Fixed broadband subscriptions: 2, 111, 109 or 29. 93 per 100 inhabitants ( 2010 )

As of January 2010, South Africa has over 2 million broadband broadband subscribers.

* HIPERLAN / 2 broadband radio access network.

The standards group CCITT defined " broadband service " in 1988 as requiring transmission channels capable of supporting bit rates greater than the primary rate which ranged from about 1. 5 to 2 Mbit / s.

The company had 3. 2 million customers buying at least one service from them, with the 1. 4 million subscribers to broadband services making NTL the market leader in this field.

: 2. intramodal competition among a small number of wireline broadband providers that serve multi-locational business customers who tend to be located in business districts ; and

: The activated NO < sub > 2 </ sub > luminesces broadband visible to infrared light as it reverts to a lower energy state.

HiperMAN will be an interoperable broadband fixed wireless access system operating at radio frequencies between 2 GHz and 11 GHz.

Fire Warrior was one of the first PlayStation 2 games to support 8 player games using its broadband adaptor.

70 centimeters is very close to the third harmonic of 2 meters, which allows sufficiently broadband 2 meter antennas to be used for 70 centimeters.

* Digital Video Broadcasting ( DVB ); Second generation framing structure, channel coding and modulation systems for Broadcasting, Interactive Services, News Gathering and other broadband satellite applications ( DVB-S2 ), ETSI EN 302 307, V1. 2. 1, April 2009.

At the same date the fixed line network physical accesses were about 15. 4 millions, the broadband retail accesses in Italy were 7. 2 millions, Tim lines 31 millions, TIM Brasil lines 51 millions, mobile lines in Paraguay 1. 9 millions, and in Argentina the number of fixed lines were 4. 1 millions, the broadband accesses 1. 4 millions and mobile lines 16. 3 millions.

At the same date the fixed line network physical accesses were about 14. 7 millions, the broadband retail accesses in Italy were 7. 1 millions, Tim lines 32. 2 millions, TIM Brasil lines 64. 1 millions, mobile lines in Paraguay 2. 1 millions, and in Argentina the number of fixed lines were 4. 1 millions, the broadband accesses 1. 5 millions and mobile lines 18. 2 millions.

The lab explores and creates digital entertainment prototypes for film, television, video games, broadband and mobile phones.

Today, many TRS-mediated calls are made over the Internet by consumers who use broadband connections.

Until 2005-2006 broadband access ( mostly using ADSL ) was available only in a few major cities in Belarus.

In Minsk there were a dozen privately owned ISP's and in some larger cities Beltelecom's broadband was available.

Other ISPs are expanding their broadband networks beyond Minsk as well.

It is known that the Brunei's broadband ranging from 512 kbit / s to 1 Mbit / s is one the most expensive in the world.

In recent years, Frankston has been an outspoken advocate for reducing the role of telecommunications companies in the evolution of the internet, particularly with respect to broadband and mobile communications.

Wireless broadband is technology that provides high-speed wireless Internet access or computer networking access over a wide area.

Originally the word " broadband " had a technical meaning, but became a marketing term for any kind of relatively high-speed computer network or Internet access technology.

According to the 802. 16-2004 standard, broadband means " having instantaneous bandwidths greater than 1 MHz and supporting data rates greater than about 1. 5 Mbit / s.

Although as many as 70 percent of Colombians accessed the Internet over their ordinary telephone lines, dial-up access is losing ground to broadband.

In 2005 Colombia had 345, 000 broadband subscriber lines, or one per 100 inhabitants.

In 1982, a radical liberalization of the law on cable was proposed by the Information Technology Advisory Panel, for the sake of promoting a new generation of broadband cable systems leading to the wired society After setting up and receiving the conclusions of the Hunt Inquiry into Cable Expansion and Broadcasting Policy, the Government decided to proceed with liberalization and two pieces of legislation: the Cable and Broadcasting Act and the Telecommunications Act, were enacted in 1984.

To maintain the momentum of the perceived commercial interest in this new investment opportunity, in 1983, the Government itself granted eleven interim franchises for new broadband systems each covering a community of up to around 100, 000 homes, but the competitive franchising process was otherwise left to the new regulatory body, the Cable Authority, which took on its powers from January 1, 1985.

By the end of 1990 almost 15 million homes had been included in franchised areas, but only 828, 000 of these had been passed by broadband cable and only 149, 000 were actually subscribing.