broadband research.

1. What is broadband?
a network that can transmit a wide range of signals, including audio and video.

2. Outline the methods of delivery of broadband (wireless, cable, ADSL and fibre)? Identify the speed of each method.
wireless; Uses Radio Frequency Signals
cable; increasingly powerful network that allows much faster and more efficient broadband to be delivered and often for a very competitive price -Fibre Optic Cable
ADSL; (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) - Telephone line
fibre; high speed Internet access - Fibre Optic cable to deliver data

3. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each method.
wireless; + wire free, therefore easy installation -
cable; + powerful, efficient - complication of wires
ADSL; + -
fibre; + high speed Internet access - complication of wires

4. Give examples of broadband providers and identify the costs.
Optus; around $40 to $130 per month, depending on plan
Telstra Bigpond; around $20 to $120 per month, depending on plan
TPG; around $30 to $100 per month, depending on plan

5. The Federal Government is thinking of rolling out a national broadband network (The NBN). Research the NBN and find out:
a. what method of delivery it will use; laying of fibre optic cabling
b. the expected speed; capable of delivering speeds of 100 megabits per second
c. the expected costs; pretty affordable
6. Do you think Australians should invest in The NBN? Justify your answer. I think Australians who are regularly using internet for business, communiction and whatnot should invest in NBN because it is fast and affordable. This means no more wasted time waiting for sites to load, no more laggy videos, just super fast and efficent broadband :)

multimedia assignment 4.

With myself finishing the final touches to my websites, my group and I have officially finished!!! ^_________________^ and at 8pm too! and i thought i would be doing an all-nighter tonight for that perfect last-miute finish ;) but no, we actually finished early ^^

you can visit our homepage by clicking "here" !!
the topics i did were ; netbooks, wifi, motherboards and piracy and copyright

group/ self evaluation ;
+ i reckon our group did heaps well as we're finished on time, we got all our info done and we had great communication :)
- since we we're working on seperate wix's, there are some slight and some obvious differences between our wix's which i guess is bad since its not 100% cohesive, because some have lots of info, and some have good info etc.
+ i seriously put a lot of effort (towards the last few days) into my work and i believe i answered the questions as good as possible :)
+ i think my wix is totally beautiful, i really tried to experiment with the different gadgets (like scrollbar textboxes, image sliders, etc)
- i suppose my work is a little last minute, and i only started putting real effort in towards the last week, which was pretty slack to my group who has been working hard continuously

wix evaluation ;
- wix turned out to be a really large flash website; meaning it is really slow, especially with computers that are already slow so it ended up being really really really REALLY slow; this made it really time consuming and frustrating to use at some times
+ although wix was annoying-ly slow, i still enjoyed using it since it was aesthetically pleasing, there were are bunch of gadgets that made it super cool and exciting and overall it was pretty awesome :)

multimedia assignment 3.

GUESS WHAT ? We got an extenision !!! :D :D :D just what I needed !
Our due date was pushed anoher 4 days (i think) which was totally amazing :) This gave me time to relax a little and take more time to put effort into my websites. At the moment, my internet at home is still slow ==" so for the past few days i've been going to the library at lunch to do it, and spending some all-nighters at my cousin's house to use their computer.

Here are a few more problems we/ I had to face:
- it wouldn't work when i tried to add videos onto wix by using the embed code, but i after i asked miss, she told me to try finding the video straight from the wix (if that makes sense) and it worked ! ^^
- (since we're doing the whole make-seperate-websites-then-link-it-to-a-homepage sort of thing) we tried doing this (by linking the (cute) little house icon) and it worked but we realised when you click the link it opens in a new window (which would be bad since if you were looking at all the topics you would end up with like a "gazillion" windows)so we had to go back to each link and select the "open in same window" option ~problem solved ! :D

problems that we've/ i've encountered.

- Since wix.com doesn't have any collaboration options, we had to come up with a strategy (where we got all our info first and then make our seperate wix's and link it to one home page)
- Later there was a bit of confusion about our strategy which we worked out through "communicating". We then made a minor alteration to our strategy and decided to make a seperate wix for each topic (with each tab on the wix being a different question (which i think is very genius)) and then link each wix to the one home page
- My internet congestion speed at home is really really really slow at the moment (which is excruciatingly annoying) so wix.com can't even half load so with 2 days left to go i would have to work on it during lunchtimes at school and travel to my cousin's place to use their computer and hopefully finish (or else i'll be letting my group down and feel insanely guilty if we fail)

bibliography.

NETBOOKS
- Wisegeek, viewed 17/08/10, http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-netbook.htm.
- Cnet News, viewed 17/08/10, http://news.cnet.com/what-is-a-netbook-computer/.
- PC Authority, viewed 18/08/10, http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/175753,whats-next-for-the-future-of-the-netbook.aspx.
- 64 Bit Computers, viewed 18/08/10, http://64-bit-computers.com/wp-content/ECS_945GCT-M.jpg.

PIRACY AND COPYRIGHT
- Slideshare, viewed 24/08/10, http://www.slideshare.net/msjasmin/copyright-and-piracy.
- The Gemini Geek, viewed 28/08/10, http://www.thegeminigeek.com/what-is-piracy/..
- Microsoft, viewed 28/08/10, http://www.microsoft.com/australia/genuine/Piracy.mspx.
- Astra, viewed 28/08/10, http://astra.org.au/pages/copyright-piracy.
- Copyright, viewed 28/08/10 http://www.copyright.org.au/information/cit020/wp0019.


MOTHERBOARDS
- E-articles, viewed 29/08/10, http://e-articles.info/e/a/title/Types-Of-Motherboards/.
- Ehow, viewed 29/08/10, http://www.ehow.com/how-does_4928345_how-motherboards-work.html .
- Overlock3d, viewed 29/08/10, http://www.overclock3d.net/news/cpu_mainboard/upcoming_asus_amd_motherboard_with_sata6_usb_3_0_spotted/1. -Asus, viewed 30/08/10, http://event.asus.com/mb/2010/Dual_Intelligent_Processors/.

WIFI
- Compnetworking, viewed 30/08/10, http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/wireless80211/a/aa80211standard.htm.
- Ehow. viewed 2/09/10, http://www.ehow.com/how-does_4693928_wifi-work.html.
- Yahoo Answers, viewed 2/09/10, http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071203175408AAopxun.
- Yahoo News, viewed 2/09/10, http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/20100510/tc_ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc1980.

multimedia assignment 2.

Our group's method is to research all the information first, then later put all our research together. Since is Wix doesn't facilitate easy collaboration, we have decided that we will all make seperate Wix's and then link it back to one home page.

jimdo review.

versatility; jimdo is a versatile website as it allows to use a range of media; e.g text, videos, images etc.

easy of use; jimdo is an easy ite to use as it is simple and straight forward

collaboration; jimdo allows easy collaboration as you are able to edit different pages on the same account at the same time

wix review.

versatility; Wix is very versatile as there are many tools you can use and iwt works with various multimeding, including text, videos, animations etc.

easy of use; Wix is a very easy to use since there are sevral tutorials availables and everything is simple and straightforward. Unfortunately wix is sort of slow and takes a bit to load

collaboration; Wix however, doesn't facilitate collaboration, but instead we have come up with a strategy - we will make our own individual wix's and then link it to a single home page.

protopage review.

this lesson, we played around with a website called 'protopage.com'

versatility:
protopage allows the use of many types of media including; text, images and video

ease of use:
however protopage is quite complicated and quite difficult to use

collaboration:
protopage allows collaboration between shared users, however you can only edit sperate widgets.

multimedia assignment.

Today we were informed about our next assignment which is on multimedia. We were able to choose from groups of 1-3. My group consists of; Steph, Crishna and myself. Since our group has 3 members we would have to complete 12 topics, 4 each. The topics we have chosen are:
Me; Netbooks, Pircay and Copyright, Motherboards and Wifi
Crishna; Digital Television, Software License types, CPUs and Wireless Broadband
Steph; Handheld Multimedia Devices, Secondary Storage, Bluetooth and Social Networking.
This lesson we also had a preview of the possible sites/programs we may use to produce our assignment. It was a unanimous desicision that the we will be creating our program with wix.com.