Broadband is like ****, Dial up is like ****

[AshtonBlack]

Historically, Dial-up was copper, session based using a telco's exchange. The common maximum baud rate was 56.6 kilo bytes per second. Teclo's improved the situation with a digital version called ISDN at 64k this was little improvement and was generally expensive. Dual ISDN channels soon followed at 128k but still damn expensive. In some parts of the world a direct co-axial cable into the home became a reality, at 512k this was the first true home broadband. Another method of compressing the information onto a copper wire called ADSL allowed existing copper to be used for speeds over 1Mb was released and it became generally recognised that "broadband" is any internet connection over 512kb.

So then...

"Dial-up" is any internet connection < 56.6k, but is restricted to using digital to analogue modulators using a copper line designed for voice.
"Broadband" is generally accepted to mean any internet connection over 512kb. (Interestingly, NTL tried selling 256kb as "broadband" and was told by the ASA to knock it off.)

Oh.... you wanted a silly answer, erm...

Dial up is like something rubbish.
Broadband is like a brilliant thing.

[Don't Panic]

Dial up is like 56 thousand
Broadband is like 20 million.

[JimC]

Dial up is like sex...

Broadband is like gin...

[Deep Sea Isopod]

If Yamaha done the interweb....
Dial up would be:-


Broadband would be:-



If Honda done the interweb....
Dial up would be:-



Broadband would be:-



If Harley Davidson done the interweb....
Dial up would be:-


Broadband would be:-

[M]

Broadband is my mother's roast beef.
Broadband is my husband's scallops in lemongrass sauce.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Dial-up is saying "Jesus H Christ" at a church fete.

Broadband is strapping a 14" black-rubber cock to a statue of the virgin Mary just before the Easter Sunday service.

[lpetrich]

Broadband is like a freeway, dialup like a trail.

Broadband is like a racecar, dialup like a Yugo.
Broadband is like a bullet train, dialup like the Toonerville Trolley.
Broadband is like a Boeing 747, dialup like a paper airplane.
Broadband is like a cruise ship, dialup like a rowboat.