Most people in the modern civilized world will have heard of Broadband and will know that it relates to the internet But how many of you I wonder actually know what broadband means, and what it does? In basic terms broadband refers to the way that you connect up to the internet When the internet first burst upon the public domain, we all used dial up technology, which meant that we connected our computers to the web via an ordinary telephone line Broadband however uses a different technology than dial up, and is much faster