1. Introduction
● While surfing the Internet, do you find
yourself going to get a cup of coffee,
grab a magazine or retile your bathroom
between page loads?
● If so, chances are you're using a dial-
up connection.

2. Dial-up Speed
● The connection speed of dial-up is limi
ted by the bandwidth of phone lines.
● But, the average file size for Web cont
ent is getting larger and larger.
● It takes a lot time to squeeze all of t
hat data through a dial-up connection.

3. New Technology
● New technology offers a solution to the
slow-down that doesn't necessitate broa
dband.
● EarthLink are now offering "high-speed
dial-up.
● It can get connection speeds that are f
ive times faster than traditional dial-
up service.

4. Handshake Protocol
● The strange sort of "R2-D2 in a blender
" type chirping is called the handshake
protocol.
● It is the first thing that bogs down th
e speed of dial-up Internet.

5. Modem Handshake
and Software Handshake
● Modem handshake is the modem initializi
ng the Internet connection.
● Software handshake is which deals with
authenticating the user's access to the
ISP.
● They can speed up the software handshak
e.

6. Summary
● I understood that the high-speed dial-u
p connection was faster than the conven
tional dial-up connection.
● It was hard to give presentation in Eng
lish.