I will go over the ins and outs of broadband. I will show you what to watch for and what to avoid. I will also show you how you can tweak that connection, because like anything on your PC, using the default setup is probably a waste of power. It includes all modes of internet access faster than dial-up. The choice you make will probably have most to do with what is easily available in your area.
Cable is pretty widely available.
If your area has cable internet access, this is probably your best bet. Throughput is the amount of data that can flow through the wires in a given time period. The way the cable system is designed, approximately 30-40 homes sit on a single cable node, and each cable node shares a common amount of bandwidth. This means that if you are in an area where there are a lot of cable modems that may be active at any given time, you might notice some really sluggish access speeds, regardless of whether its considered broadband or not. I have, at times, seen cable modems that make dial-up seem like broadband.