http://articles.fastdslinternetconnection.com/rss.xml A blog about fastdslinternetconnection.com daily 365 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://articles.fastdslinternetconnection.com/?a=36055 <p>by Gregg Hall </p><p>In today's home and business life, we need to communicate with many people who are far away. Using a regular telephone will get you a huge bill with the long distance charges. Even a cell phone can be inadequate for all your long distance needs. The cell phone can cut you off or go to roaming. This can make phone calls expensive and frustrating for both parties on the line.<br /><br />There are different ways to make phone calls or have live conversations with someone on the Internet. There are web sites that are set up like a regular phone service with all the same amenities. These phones services can come with a charge depending on the features and usage. They can have things like call waiting, three way calling, and voice mail. <br /><br />This is a good option for people who need to do a large part of their business on the phone and want a reliable and inexpensive way to do it. <br /><br />There are programs and hardware you can add to your computer to turn it into a phone. There is telephony software that will give you access to the phone system. You also need to have a microphone and speakers or a headset before making calls. There are wireless headsets available so you are not tied to your computer.<br /><br />You can have live conversations through the use of web based messenger services. There are many web servers like MSN and Yahoo that have a messenger service that you can download onto your computer. They allow you to send instant messages, picture, and files. They can also allow you to turn your PC into a video phone with the use of a web camera. All you have to do is contact the person you want to speak with, and then invite them to view your camera. After that is set, there is a button that allows you to speak to them directly. Then viola, you have a videophone.<br /><br />There is also voice over Internet protocol (VoIP). With this technology you can make a call from anywhere there is a broadband connection. So business travelers can take their phones with them on trips and always have access to their home phones. Another alternative is the soft phone. A soft phone is software that loads the VoIP service onto your desktop or laptop. It has an interface that looks like a traditional phone. As long as you have a headset or microphone, you can make call from anywhere you can get a broadband connection.<br /><br />These advancements in phone calling technology may one day make the landline phones a thing of the past. 30 years ago it would have been amazing to make a phone call from anywhere but your home or public pay phone. Now you can go anywhere and do anything and still have the ability to communicate with anyone you choose.</p><h3 class="popup">About the Author </h3><p>Gregg Hall is an author living in Navarre Florida. Find more about this as well as fast DSL internet connection at <a href="http://www.fastdslinternetconnection.com/">http://www.fastdslinternetconnection.com</a></p> 2006-10-08T22:38-04:00 http://articles.fastdslinternetconnection.com/?a=36054 <p>by Gregg Hall</p><p>In this day and age of convenience stores, fast food and high tech people no longer have the patience to wait for anything. We have microwaves to cook food in minutes when it used to take hours for the same results. We drive faster, travel farther, and go to the extreme on everything. Now we need all of that from our internet connection too. When the internet first began it was accessed through a phone line. This seemed to be revolutionary technology. And now the same access is like going on a long trip with Grandma driving on four flat tires.<br /><br />Our Internet surfing needs have increased along with the need for speed. We have to check our email and favorite web pages before going to work or school and we don't have much time to do it. The best and fastest way to achieve the necessary speed, so we can continue our lives, is with a cable or satellite connection.<br /><br />Most homes are now fitted with either cable or satellite so getting the computer hooked up is no problem. It usually just takes a junction of some type and a cable stuck in the back of the computer then off you go into the wild blue yonder of cyber space. There are other reasons to go with the high speed connection, besides the time savings issue. There are also movie and television shows that can be downloaded and watched on your monitor. Many web pages are now interactive and you can do many different things, like play games or take quizzes, they are much more fun and interesting when they can go as fast as the player.<br /><br />There are also the home based workers. A high speed connection is the only way to go if you work from your computer at home. When time is money there is no other comparison. It isn't just the fast downloads that can be performed but also the uploading of completed work that can be done quickly. This is also true with sharing photos and video clips. Who has the time to try to open an entire photo album when a single picture can take five minutes to download?<br /><br />Some businesses are based on how fast they can perform certain operations. For example, when it comes to buying and selling stock, you have to be able to not only make quick decisions but you have to be able to get the stock you want when the price is right. Many day traders work from home on their computers and have several of them running at the same time to stay on top of the market and receive up to the date notices of how their stock is doing. When trading with hundreds or thousands of dollars, you don't want to wait for your computer to catch up.</p><h3 class="popup">About the Author </h3><p>Gregg Hall is an author living in Navarre Florida. Find more about this as well as fast DSL internet at <a href="http://www.fastdslinternetconnection.com/">http://www.fastdslinternetconnection.com</a></p> 2006-10-08T22:34-04:00