A PLAN FOR THE REPORT AND ITS SOURCE MATERIAL
...ices and the future of broadband internet connec-tions. The future vision will highly be based on the report the Finnish govern-ment did a few weeks ago saying that there should be a national broadband program for spreading connections all over Finland by having the operators lower their prices. We are also going to present a little piece of internet history from the connections´ point of view. 1.1 Report material The hardware requirements depend on the operating system you are using and the modem type. Usually all the models require at least 64Mb of memory, 5Mb of free space on the hard drive and a 200MHz or faster Intel Pentium processor. But the requirements vary depending on the operating system you are using. If you are sharing your phone line with the broadband connection you need to purchase an interference eliminator. This is because of the fact that a phone is an analog device and the modem is a digital device. Security is an important i...