This Broadband speed test measures the current speed of your broadband internet connection.
What is broadband power?
Broadband means speed. It is the collective name given to a range of high speed internet connections that are (normally) always switched on. Always on, always available – just like your electricity or water supplies – broadband is ready, steady, communication power.
For businesses, organisations and individuals, the prospect of moving from an internet connection over a standard telephone line to a broadband connection has been described as like moving from a single track road to a ten lane highway – and one where you’re allowed to drive forthy times faster than before!
Broadband is the future of telecommunications – not just for business and personal web and email use, but also for other internet applications such as voice, video conferencing, e-business, radio, streaming video and digital TV. In business, in particular, broadband will impact across almost every sector from education and healthcare to manufacturing and tourism.
Offering speeds up to forty times faster than a standard internet connection, broadband makes it easy and cheap to transfer large quantities of data, images, graphics, video and high quality sound. It has obvious advantages for business – which we look at later – but it is also likely to revolutionise education, community life and home entertainment. In fact, the true impact of broadband is only now becoming apparent as individuals and businesses explore its full potential.
To begin our overview of broadband in the Highlands and Islands, we briefly consider the range of broadband connections available.
Measuring broadband power