For homes with multiple computers, Internet access via a broadband connection allows several people to use the Internet at the same time. All you need to do is put the computers on a network, such as a wireless network, which is becoming more popular, and affordable. Since the prices of desktop computers has come down dramatically in the past five years, it is commonplace for kids and teenagers to have their own PCs in their bedrooms to do homework, visit chat rooms, and (Ahem!) download Usher and Eminem music files. Not that they wouldn’t even think of using internet access for something like that! Gone are the days of the one-computer household, or the one-TV, or one-phone, or one-car household. Families are tuned in to the net through broadband DSL and enjoying new venues of entertainment such as interactive games, streaming media, blogging, shopping, sports, news, and researching information for school. It’s become a cultural revolution: Internet access has replaced visits to the library and mall. Internet access will also soon replace the trip to the video store. Not only is the technology available now to download movies but video on demand is just around the corner. DSL subscribers who have accounts at large companies, such as DSL service providers Verizon or EarthLink, are able to receive up to 6.1 Mbps of data downstream and are fully capable of receiving movies, audio files, and 3-D images to the computer or a hooked-in TV set. And all without losing the phone line! Since a small portion of the downstream bandwidth can be devoted to voice data, you can hold phone conversations without requiring a separate line. Now if the high speed internet access providers can just find a way to network the five cell phone accounts the family has . . . Related Articles Should
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