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  2. Troubleshoot a broadband internet connection - AOL Help

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    If you're using broadband (cable) internet and you can't connect, try the following troubleshooting steps in the order listed until you get up and running again. 1. Check if you can visit other sites with a different browser - If you can go to another site, the problem may be associated the browser you're using.

  3. Contention ratio - Wikipedia

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    In computer networking, the contention ratio is the ratio of the potential maximum demand to the actual bandwidth. The higher the contention ratio, the greater the number of users that may be trying to use the actual bandwidth at any one time and, therefore, the lower the effective bandwidth offered, especially at peak times. [1]

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  5. Bandwidth throttling - Wikipedia

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    The Internet is a good example, in which web servers are used to host websites, providing information to a potentially very large number of client computers. Clients will make requests to servers, which will respond by sending the required data , which may be a song file, a video, and so on, depending on what the client has requested.

  6. Data-rate units - Wikipedia

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    The ISQ symbols for the bit and byte are bit and B, respectively.In the context of data-rate units, one byte consists of 8 bits, and is synonymous with the unit octet.The abbreviation bps is often used to mean bit/s, so that when a 1 Mbps connection is advertised, it usually means that the maximum achievable bandwidth is 1 Mbit/s (one million bits per second), which is 0.125 MB/s (megabyte per ...

  7. Mobile data offloading - Wikipedia

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    Mobile data offloading is the use of complementary network technologies for delivering data originally targeted for cellular networks. Offloading reduces the amount of data being carried on the cellular bands, freeing bandwidth for other users.

  8. Network delay - Wikipedia

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    Graphical depiction of contributions to network delay. Network delay is a design and performance characteristic of a telecommunications network.It specifies the latency for a bit of data to travel across the network from one communication endpoint to another.

  9. High Speed Packet Access - Wikipedia

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    High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) [1] is an amalgamation of two mobile protocols—High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA)—that extends and improves the performance of existing 3G mobile telecommunication networks using the WCDMA protocols.