... ever they want, and we would have internet sites looking us up every day breaking our personal privacy. Almost every one that has been on the Internet or that uses e-mail has heard of hacking. Hacking is very serious in some cases. How would you like a hacker to intercept your credit card number and start using it to buy his or ... host computers (sites you are visiting) know where to send information and not to send it to the wrong computer on any network. Think of it kind of like a postal address. Your postal address is not totally private and it does not need to be, almost like your ...

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... are seen as a poor mans broadband. Home users primarily use them now since companies use cable systems for the extra bandwidth. The home user would typically us their connection for e-mail, web searching or maybe for shopping and home banking, none of which require a lot of bandwidth. 1b) Cable Modem Broadband is the common term for a high bandwidth Internet connection. A Broadband ... case with most real-time data, such as live audio and video. Packet switching is more efficient and robust for data that can withstand some delays in transmission, such as e-mail messages and Web pages. X...

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