Cable Internet Service

 

One of the options of getting Internet connection is cable Internet service; with it your cable TV company becomes your Internet provider. In order to provide this type of connection, satellite dishes are installed. Usually they are installed for a community. From them a cabling system branches out to neighborhoods where customer computers are grouped into small networks. A router and high-speed connection provide the potential for Internet connectivity over every cable in the system.

With cable Internet service television and data signals are carried over the same cable. To offer both TV and Internet access, the cable’s bandwidth is divided among three activities: TV channels, downstream data (the data you receive) and upstream data (the data you send).

When you subscribe for cable Internet, you are essentially connecting to an Ethernet-style LAN that connects a neighborhood of cable subscribers. The two requirements for this type of connection are circuitry to handle Ethernet protocols and a cable modem, which converts your computer’s signal into the one that can travel over the cable TV network.

Cable Internet service provides an always-on connection that is “on” whenever your computer is powered up – whether or not you are online using a browser, an e-mail client or other Internet utility. With an always-on connection, you might have the same IP address for days or even months, depending on your ISP. Because your computer is connected to the Internet for long periods of time, an always-on connection is particularly vulnerable to hackers. Gaining access to unprotected computers allows hackers to steal data, launch virus attacks and send e-mails from your account.

When your cable connection is up and running, your computer becomes part of a neighborhood data network that includes any of your neighbors who subscribe to cable Internet. The cable you share with your neighbors has a certain amount of bandwidth. As more and more neighbors use the service, it might seem to get slower and slower.

 

Вариант 3

 

1. Перепишите предложения, найдите в них инфинитив и подчеркните его, определите его форму. Письменно переведите предложения на русский язык.

 

1. To configure your computer for Automatic Updates tab use Control Panel’s

System icon.

2. This technique is related to the criteria supposed to be built into the machine.

3. The world knows Babbage’s ideas to have had a great influence on the computer

development.

4. Internet addresses can be written as a series of numbers.

5. To understand how to use a computer one must fully appreciate a design.

 

2. Перепишите предложения, подчеркните инфинитив и определите его функцию. Письменно переведите предложения на русский язык.

 

1. It is important to check your browser’s security options.

2. The biggest challenge is to control access by using passwords.

3. If you decide to assign private IP addresses to your workstations, you will hide

them from hackers who will see only the IP address for your router.

4. To deal with a malicious code, such as viruses and worms, it is important to run

an antivirus software on a standalone computer.

5. Leibnitz was the first to use the word “function”.

 

3. Перепишите предложения. Подчеркните в каждом инфинитивный оборот и определите его форму (объектный, субъектный и предложный инфинитивный оборот). Письменно переведите предложения на русский язык.

 

1. It is possible for the computers to handle all types of information.

2. The transmission mode enables the receiving computer to know where one byte ends and next byte begins on the transmission medium.

3. The modem waits for the ISP’s modem to answer the call.

4. The program proved to be a great success.

5. When you use a dial-up connection, your computer’s modem is supposed to place a regular telephone call to your ISP.

 

4. Преобразуйте предложения, воспользовавшись инфинитивом или инфинитивным оборотом и словами в скобках, если они даны. Письменно переведите полученные предложения на русский язык.

 

1. He said: “Avoid turning off the main power while the computer is running”.

2. Some molecules are large. They could be seen on the electron microscope (enough).

3. It was important that the researchers fulfilled their work in time (for).

4. The system is the first one that tells us if someone tries to get into the system.

5. It appears that my monitor screen flickers.

 

5. Перепишите предложения, употребив нужную форму прилагательного (much – many, (a)little – (a) few). Письменно переведите предложения на русский язык.

 

1.… … days later I again tried to reset the parameters.

2. … free ISPs also offer Web-based mail.

3. It takes … time for the ISP’s modem to answer the call.

4. How can one network offer so …information to so … people.

5. If the hard disk crashes … of your data is lost permanently.

 

6. Прочтите и письменно переведите текст.