... 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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