Broadband and bandwidth

1. What is broadband?

broadband refers to a telecommunications signal of greater bandwidth, in some sense, than another standard or usual signal.

2. What units are used to measure bandwidth?
There are a lot of ways to measure bandwidth, some measurements are very similar and are often confused. Below is a list of the typical units. The main thing to note is the difference between the bits and bytes units, they only differ by the capitalisation of the letter B. There is a factor of eight difference between Kbps and KB/s, this is because there is eight bits to a byte. Therefore a 54 Kbps dial-up connection can also be specified as a 6.7 KB/s connection.
Unit & Abbreviation

Kilobits per seconds Kbps

kilobytes per second KB/s or KBps

Megabits per second Mbps

Megabytes per second MB/s or MBps


3. How much faster is broadband than dial up?
Broadband Internet access (cable and DSL) has been replacing dial-up access in many parts of the world. Broadband connections typically offer speeds 700 kbit/s or higher for approximately the same price as dialup.


4. What are the speeds that broadband operates at compared to dial up?

Dial up- 58Kbps

Broadband- at least 200Kbps
5. What are some of the advantages of using a broadband connection to download something like a video compared to dial up?

Basically the advantage is speed. Broadband has faster transfer feeds. With boradband connection most music and videos can be downloaded from ITunes legally in less than 1minute. On a dial up connection it would take 10-15minutes to download on a 56kbps.
Dial-up modems are limited to a bitrate of less than 56 kbit/s (kilobits per second) and require the full use of a telephone line—whereas broadband technologies supply more than double this rate and generally without disrupting telephone use.

Story Board

This is our storyboard is does not have credits & title but they are included in the short film

script

THE ACT OF BULLYING (the song "no air")

Bullies walk up to the camera (threatening song)

Establishing shot of the school

Pan to the bullies (eerie music plays) then to victim.

Low angle shot of bullies talking

BULLY1: Listen to us you little punk, we're gonna take your damn diary [takes diary], we're gonna break it [Breaks it]

BULLY2: [Takes the broken piece]...and there's nothing you can do about it. If you say a word to anyone, you're dead!

BULLY1: and we don't wanna see you in our spot again.
BULLY2: That's right.

BULLY1: [looks at bully1] We outta here.

BULLY2: Yeah...

[Bullies walk away]

[Tight shot of victim suffering {song 'heartless'}]

[Victim walking away, bullies see her]

BULLY2: What the hell man, we aint done yet [slams part of the diary]

BULLY1: Yeah man [slams the other part]

[They start pushing the victim]

BULLY1: Come back here! Where do you think you're going? HUh? HUh? HUh?

[They push the victim down on the floor]

BULLY2: We don't wanna see you mess with us again!

BULLY1: Yeah! And stay there...

BULLY2: Yeah...

[Bullies walk away. victim is left crying and walks away too]

Establishing shot of IST classroom

BULLY2: I don't get this man!

BULLY1: uh... yeah... uh...

BULLY2: How can you do this man? CONGRUENCE?

BULLY1: Uh... I think you're meant to flip that thing over-

BULLY2: I don’t know!!

[Camera pans to victim again then pans back to bullies with a cunning smile]

[Bullies walk up to the victim]

BULLY2: You have to do it! Alright?

BULLY1: And you better get it right!

BULLY2: Yeah... If we get this wrong, if we get a zero , you're dead!

BULLY1: You take this and get it done!

[Bullies walk away]

[Victim works hard on it and gets bullied again. This sequence is fast forwarded as the consequence is obvious]

HOST: May teenagers fall victim to bullying. It may not be visible but it is happening. and what you just saw was the effect of bullying.

HOST: Here is a way to be assertive.

Establishing shot of IST classroom

[Victim walks up and finds a "BULLYING NO WAY CARD"]

VICTIM: Bullying no way? www.bullyingnoway.com? Let me go try that.

{The research continues}

[Shot of the computer]

[Shot of victim reading]

[Victim looking at leaves outside the library and sees approaching bullies]

VICTIM: Stop! I won't take this anymore. I've had enough!

[Confused bullies, backing away]

BULLY1: Ok man, what is wrong with you??

BULLY2: Yeah right, we outta here.

IT ACTUALLY WORKED!

Credits (song "Forever")

darft story board

Bullies- Fadzwai and Tapii


Victim- Simran

Host- Priyanka



Title: How to react to bullies. [host (priyanka) says it]



Frame 1 - Introduction of bullies (fadzwai + tapiwa), by bullying the victim (simran).

Frame 2 - Bullies (fadzwai + tapiwa) in IST giving homework for the victim (simran) to complete.

Frame 3 - Victim (simran) does the homework.

Frame 4 - Bullies (fadzwai + tapiwa) bully the victim (simran) at lunch time while eating.

Frame 5 - Physical abuse on the victim (simran).

Frame 6 - Victim (simran) be's assertive and calls kids helpline/ gets help from the internet.

Frame 7 - victim (simran) gets inspiration , playing the song "eye of the tiger" in the background.

Frame 8 - Bullies (fadzwai + tapiwa) give the homework to the victim(simran) but she stands up for herself.

Frame 9 - Host (priyanka) summarises the topic.

Frame 10 - Bullies (fadzwai + tapiwa) walk down the stairs.

Frame 11 - Credits

gant chart

I made this gantt chart because the one i made with my group was too hard to read.

You can click on the photo for a clear view