Essential Guide to Home Networking Technologies, The

Chapter 3. Residential Broadband Internet Technologies

In this chapter…

• Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) Technologies

• Hybrid Fiber-Coax (HFC) Technologies

• Wireless Local Loop

• Satellite

• Broadband Powerline Area Networks

• Summary

Over the past couple of years, the Internet has become an inescapable part of our lives. It has been around in one form or another since the late 1960s. In the last few years it has caught the imagination of millions of people around the world, with the number of people connecting to the Internet doubling every six months. The Internet's best-known feature is the World Wide Web (the Web). The resources available on the Web include text, graphics, video, audio, and animation. Unfortunately, many people that access the Web experience ...