How fast is digital Internet in kilobites per second?

Answer 1

First of all, all internet access is digital. That's the only way it's done.

The speed you can get through your connection depends on how you connect

to the internet, and on how much you're willing to pay for it.

If there's any "dial-up" access available anymore ... the kind where you have to

make a phone call and listen to the modem sync-up, then that type of connection

tops out at something like 7 kilobytes per second.

From there, you have the choice of many other ways of getting onto the internet.

They have names like ISDN, cable, T-1, wireless, WiFi, WiMAX, 3G, 4G, LTE, etc.

For some of them, your computer has to be physically connected or "wired" to

something else; for others, your computer connects to it through the air, by radio.

Each of them has its own top speed limit. Also, in many cases, the speed you

can actually get at any moment may depend on how many other people in your

neighborhood are also using it at the same time.

Others may argue, but it seems to me at the moment that the highest speed

available to you as an individual is probably something like 600 kilobytes per

second.

Finally, I don't think anyone will argue on this point: The more speed you want,

the more it will cost you.