Hi Lisa The speed of your froadband does not depend on the ethernet card you use. Instead it depends what package you buy from the broadband provider. This is similar to cable TV where you get so many channels for free, and can pay a little bit extra for some more, and a lot extra for lots more. The speed of dial-up is 56kbps (you don't need to know what this means). Here in the UK companies offer midband at 128kbps (twice as fast as dial-up), or broadband at 256kbps, 512kbps, 1024kbps or 2048kbps, which works out at 4 times, 8 times, 16 times, or 32 times faster than dial-up.
In my flat I have 512kbps, shared between two people. So if we're both online we each get a speed 4 times faster than dial-up. Hope this answers your question! Saqib -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lisa Ehlers Sent: 06 August 2004 13:06 To: [email protected] Subject: [Braillenote] broadband speed Hello Listers, Someone posted about wanting info about broadband speed. H's what I have noticed. When I got my BN and I first used it for email I used dial-ups. Then I switched to a broadband service. So the BN works with the broadband service by using the Ettheernet card hope I spelled that correctly. Anyway I am using dial-up for the next couple of weeks and broadband is much faster than dial-up. Not tons faster but enough that I notice a difference. I think maybe the Ettheernet card has something to do with determining the broadband speed or something like that I am sure someone from PDI will make this make more sense. Anyway I like broadband better no tying up the phone line and I can look at Web pages while talking to companies about stuff so I can look at stuff on the Web site while I talk to a customer service representative. Hope this helps. Lisa ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
