Broadband!

[Joe]

HELL YEAH.

[CrAz3D]

you're just going to hell faster now

[Joe]

Fourteen times as fast. Boo-yah.

[CrAz3D]

Fourteen times as fast. Boo-yah.

<3

[trust]

welcome to the new millennium.

[Joe]

welcome to the new millennium.

That's what I told my parents. Except I said welcome to the 90's.

[CrAz3D]

welcome to the new millennium.

That's what I told my parents. Except I said welcome to the 90's.

naw, not the 90s.  90s was all about rockin the dial up

[rabbit]

FYI satellite is NOT broadband.

[iago]

FYI satellite is NOT broadband.

Last time I checked, anything faster than dialup is considered broadband.

Wikipedia agrees, for what that's worth.

[rabbit]

Wikipedia is written by a bunch of socially retarded high schoolers, hence why it is not an acceptable source of information on ANY kind of research paper.  Broadband allows data transmission over multiple frequencies (hence why DSL is so fast, even on the same lines 56k modems run).  Satellite is NOT broadband.  Downstream data is just faster coming down because it's literally coming down.

[Sidoh]

I think I remember reading in a Cisco book that anything other than dialup/isdn was broadband.

[trust]

Wikipedia is written by a bunch of socially retarded high schoolers, hence why it is not an acceptable source of information on ANY kind of research paper.  Broadband allows data transmission over multiple frequencies (hence why DSL is so fast, even on the same lines 56k modems run).  Satellite is NOT broadband.  Downstream data is just faster coming down because it's literally coming down.

Wikipedia is acceptable, maybe not in a formal paper (but then again is anything less than a scholarly journal acceptable?) but on something like here or a highschool paper or whatever it is. The fact that articles are able to be reviewed by the entire userbase makes it more reputable, as any disputed fact will be debated in the topics thread. The entire userbase doesn't consist of "socially retarded high schoolers", and how exactly would their social status affect their subject knowledge?

[rabbit]

Because socially unretarded people are out in the world learning things.

[iago]

I think I remember reading in a Cisco book that anything other than dialup/isdn was broadband.

I didn't see it in a Cisco book, but I'm sure I've read that before.

Of course, how somebody defines it may depend on who you're talking to, since it's more of a colloquial expression . But even if that's true, the point remains: Joe wasn't clearly wrong, as was implied.

[Joe]

Wikipedia is written by a bunch of socially retarded high schoolers, hence why it is not an acceptable source of information on ANY kind of research paper.  Broadband allows data transmission over multiple frequencies (hence why DSL is so fast, even on the same lines 56k modems run).  Satellite is NOT broadband.  Downstream data is just faster coming down because it's literally coming down.

Right. That totally explains why I get 256Kbps upstream. Thanks!

And by the way, direction doesn't matter, because energy has no gravity. Didn't you learn anything in school?