Advantages and Disadvantages

Advantages of Wireless: 
- Wireless Internet provides super fast broadband speed, approaching 2 megabytes per second or faster.
- Wireless Internet is more affordable
-  Wireless Internet is also incredibly responsive, when you call up web pages, download emails, and engage in teleconferencing or video conferencing over the net.
- The wireless Internet broadband service offers rural Web surfers a way to tap into high speed telecommunications
Disadvantages of Wireless:
- someone, within the wireless traffic can hack into your connection.

Advantages of Cable: - High connection speed
- Convenient 
- you are always connected to the internet
- Does not affect your phone line. You don’t need to switch your local phone service provider.
- Connection speed is not affected by the distance from ISP operation center
- Easy setup with self installation kit
Disadvantages of Cable:
- Higher price than dialup and DSL connection
- Higher security risk than dialup or DSL (personal firewall is needed)Not available to all cable TV networks
- Bandwidth is shared over the same cable line.
- Connection speed is affected by the number of people using the internet at the same time in your neighborhood.
- Usually tie with cable TV subscription


Advantages of ADSL: 
- Independent services: Loss of high speed data does not mean you lose your telephone service. Imagine your telephone, television, and Internet access going out when a cable company amplifier/repeater stops working.
- Security: Unlike cable modems, each subscriber can be configured so that it will not be on the same network. In some cable modem networks, other computers on the cable modem network are left visibly vulnerable and are easily susceptible  to break ins as well as data destruction.
- Integration: DSL will easily interface with ATM, Nx64, and WAN technology. Telecommuting may get even easier.
- High bandwidth
- Cheap line charges from the phone company.
- Good for "bursty" traffic patterns

 Disadvantages of ADSL:- Distance dependence: The farther you live from the DSLAM (DSL Access Multiplexer), the lower the data rate.
- Access: rural areas get shorted.
- Limited availability
- No current standardization: Customers may have to buy new equipment to simply change ISPs

Advantages of Fibre:
- Can be used over greater distances due to the low loss, high bandwidth properties
- It can be used for 2km without the use of a repeater
- “Their light weight and small in size, which makes them ideal for applications where running copper wires  would be impractical
- Due to the fibres being non-conductive, it can be used where electrical isolation is needed
- The fibres are do not pose a treat to the environment, such as in a chemical plant where a spark could cause an explosion

Disadvatages of Fibre:
- It is much more costly than other cables to install - It is relatively difficult to install