It is also a telephone company service that brings high speed to homes and businesses over ordinary copper telephone lines. One of the advantages of a DSL line is that it can carry both data and voice over the same line. We recently installed DSL service at our home office. Check with your local telephone company to find when this service will be available. Another option is Internet access through your local cable TV provider.
Cable modems are devices that attach to the cable TV network connection in a home or office.
This technology is being driven by the cable companies desire to provide services beyond traditional broadcast cable TV, such as Internet access. Like DSL, cable access is expanding rapidly. In fact, both phone and cable companies are spending enormous amounts of money developing their networks so they can grab a large customer base as quickly as possible. This translates into being able to download a 4 megabyte file in less than 1 minute. The cable service uses the same wire as your cable TV connection.