Welcome to the Broadband Downloads page, one of the main
adavantages of broadband is it's speed and the fact that
you can download large files quickly. Most most popular
broadband download is music and the songs are provided
in MP3 files, MP3s are great as they are much smaller
than standard audio files and so download much faster
so are ideal for broadband use. MP3s have led to the creation
of lots of electronics that play MP3 files such as portable
MP3 players and lots of other audio devices and you can
also easily play MP3 songs on your computer.
There is allot of controvosy surrounding broadband
downloads such as music and movies as they are copyrighted,
there are services that let you download music and
movies for free but these should be avoided as they
are illegal and you could get into trouble using these
free download services. There are legal sevices such
as iTunes
and Napster
which offer cheap downloads that are perfectly legal
so these are the services that you should use, the
music is usually cheaper than buying a CD and you
can easily copy the music onto an MP3 player or listen
to the music on your computer. Some of these download
services charge per download and some offer a subscription
where you can download as much as you like for a monthly
fee, the type of download service that you choose
depends on how much you wish to download.
There are also other types of files that you can download
using broadband as well as music, they include movies, games
and software. There are services that allow the downloading
of these files and you can also download them from the web
sites that make them, movies are very popular although the
files are very large indeed so you will need a fast broadband
connection to download movies.