Most of these services are not available in our service areas. Cable Modems, ISDN, and ADSL are all dependent on physical wires, and a middle man (i.e., the phone company). With Wireless Internet Access, you are dealing with no wires and directly with the ISP; there is no middle man. There are also speed factors. Click here to see a chart on speed comparisons.

Yes. Connection speed is dependent on your access provider, but high-speed internet connections are not required to access the BetPad.com service.

ADSL gives you a private and secure connection over a single telephone line, while cable modems share their bandwidth with multiple users. In essence, this means that connection speeds for cable modems will vary according to the number of users who are using the same line. Cable modems are also limited to homes which can support two-way cable modem transmissions, whereas ADSL is available to anyone with a phone line.

You will be able to get ADSL if the local exchange supports ADSL and you order an analogue telephone service (extra charge) to be used for the ADSL service. This service would be charged a standard telephone line rental. How many IP addresses do I get with my ADSL service? You will receive at least one static IP address with your ADSL order.

The Motorola SURFboard cable modems run with any computer that supports USB or Ethernet interface, including PCs, Macs, laptops, and workstations. SURFboard cable modems are compatible with any operating system that runs on these computers as long as the operating system supports TCP/IP (such as Macintosh® OS, Windows® 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP, Linux®, and Unix®). As you may already know, USB is not supported with Windows® 95 and NT.

The current products do not support satellite delivery directly, however, the cable modem can be connected to a satellite receiver that can output a data stream over Ethernet.

Yes, but we do not recommend it. You could experience slowness during surfing, while incurring the additional cost of maintaining two active connections.

You will notice that we feature mainly ADSL Broadband suppliers on our website. Basically this is because ADSL is an extremely competitive market. Since it was decided that Telstra would become a wholesaler and allow other suppliers to use and rent their current infrastructure, the market has really opened up. Although ADSL and Cable are both broadband they are different. Cable internet is delivered via the cable TV infrastructure such as the ones installed by Telstra and Optus a few years ago.

Basic ISDN effectively converts your telephone line to digital with two 'channels', each of which can carry a telephone conversation or data at 64Mb/s. When neither phone line is in use, the data channels can be combined to give 128Mb/s, which puts it at the bottom end of "Broadband". The drawback of ISDN is its price - Telstra have considered it a premium business service, and have priced it out of the reach of residential users.

Yes, however the line has to be re-graded to an analogue line, and BT charge to do this, you are also liable for any terms left on the ISDN contract. Once the line has been regraded, it will be checked for suitability for ADSL. There is a chance the line is not suitable and BT will charge to convert it back to ISDN.

ADSL can’t be installed on ISDN lines, so either you need a separate new (analogue) phone line or for the ISDN to be converted back to an analogue service.

Eicon has demonstrated ADSL over ISDN operation using the G.992.2 Annex B standard. Currently shipping products do not support ADSL over ISDN. The reason is that an ADSL connection may share the standard telephone wiring, however, ADSL itself is only connected to the Internet. Since a Diva ADSL modem only accesses the ADSL connection, it too is only connected to the Internet.

ADSL offers a cheaper and faster service than ISDN. ISDN works by providing two voice channels or a 128 Kbps data channel while ADSL is predominantly a data pipe providing an asymmetrical bandwidth of up to 6 Mbps downstream and 640 kbps upstream. However, the ADSL network is an overlay network and therefore does not require the expensive and time-consuming switch upgrades that held ISDN back for so long.

No. DSL is not a shared network service like cable modems, which means that one end-user can not see what's on a neighbor's computer using DSL. The service is a private dedicated connection from the end-user to the network.

DSL provides a dedicated service over a single telephone line. Cable modems offer a shared service over a cable network. Customers have the opportunity to choose a package and speed that match their needs. There are more packaging choices available with DSL, including services that a business may desire such as static IP addresses.

DSL provides always-on high-speed Internet access over a single dedicated telephone line; cable modems offer always-on high-speed Internet access over a shared cable television line. While cable modems have greater downstream bandwidth capabilities, that bandwidth is shared among all users in a neighbourhood, and will therefore vary, perhaps dramatically, as more users in a neighbourhood get online at the same time.