About ISP

ISP is the acronym of the Internet Service Provider. You need to have an ISP to connect to the Internet. When choosing Internet service provider, then you must take into account the needs, equipment, and the budget, particularly relating to the payment per month for Internet service. ISPs present at the beginning of 1960. United States Department of Defense, or more precisely the company's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) has formed the Internet first, namely, the ARPAnet in 1966.

The first time, the Internet has some node ARPAnet at the University of California at Los Angeles and Stanford University. In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee is the first time show that the World Wide Web. He wrote the first web server, as a program that can be used as a web browser and an editor. Internet is a global computer network, while the World Wide Web (WWW) using HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) as a method to share information on the Internet. WWW is the method with other SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and Internet Relay Chat (IRC). While the examples first Internet service provider is CompuServe and PSINet.

Type
There are four basic types of Internet services. Dial-up, ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network), Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) and cable. Mode Dial-up service is the most slowly with the download speed limit of 56Kbps (kilobits per second). Meanwhile, ISDN offers speed 64Kbps, DSL service is the next fastest with a speed of 128Kbps download. For more cable has high speeds up to 30Mbps or more.

Unlike dial-up connections, DSL and cable connections more open all the time and make it easy attacked by viruses and hackers, so that antivirus software should be fixed in the updated regularly. In addition, a computer with a slow processor and memory capacity that little connection to the Internet is fast Internet, it will make the slower connection.

Benefits
DSL connection has the same price or less than dial-up. You can also use the phone and surf the web at DSL at the same time, while the dial-up, you should be downloading Disconnect the Internet when using the phone. If you download or upload large files or watch streaming video or spend a long time to surf the web, the DSL connection is not enough to do so. For that, need to use the connection via cable to increase speed.