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... who cannot get DSL connections in their area or who live in a cabled area and is characterised as a shared network service. Internet connection is 'piggybacked' on the television signal received by consumers who have cable television. It generally has greater bandwidth capabilities than DSL. MDR - 128 Kbps-10,000 Kbps. There are no less than six types of DSL connections that can be made, these can range from a puny 40 Kbps (kilobits per second) offered through Rate-Adaptive DSL (RDSL) to an impressive 51 Mbps (Mega bits per second) through using Very High Data Rate DSL (VDSL). There are also other types of broadband access such as T1 and the faster T3 (mainly used by businesses) with speeds of up to 45,000 Kbps. Also there are fiber optic connections such as OC12 and OC48, with OC48 connecting as fast as 2,488,000 Kbps (Plunkett Research, 2004; Shultz, 2001). Issues with broadband Due to ...