Broadband internet access or in short broadband is using multiple bands to send and receive data. This is usually achieved by using multiple frequencies. The result is faster data communication. The actual term broadband refers to Telephone technology. We in our normal life use broadband for actually mean broadband internet connection. Sure, it uses the broadband technology.

Broadband has many advantage over ordinary dial-up connection. The first advantage I would say is the maximum downloading speed. By using broadband, we could gain at least double the speed of dial-up. The dial-up has maximum speed of 56kbps (kilobits per second). Broadband starting speed is 512kbps in UK. The maximum speed in UK is 24mbps. The speed referred here are downloading speed. Because of the communication happens through multiple channels, the uploading may speeds may be different. Usually in a household, the data sent (upload) would be much lesser than receiving (downloading). In other words, when you are requesting for a web page, the data you send to request the page will be much lesser than the data (in this case the actual web page) you will be receiving. This is why it is all right to have a broadband that provides you less upload speed than download speed for household use. An 8 Meg broadband means that maximum download speed it can provide is 8 mbps. Another big advantage of broadband is that unlike the dial-ups, they do not engage the phone line. One will be able to use phone and broadband at the same time. This eliminates the need for another phone line if you are a die-had internet user.