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Cable and DSL modems, a connection known as broadband, use your cable television or special
telephone lines to connect to your ISP and access the Internet. In many instances, broadband is
considered an always-connected service. With this type of service, your cost is the same
regardless of the amount of time you use your Internet connection.
Accessing your Internet account
The method you use to access your Internet account varies from ISP to ISP. Contact your ISP for
the correct procedure.
Using the World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a multimedia window to the Internet that gives you access to millions of
information sources.
Information on the Web comes to you on
Web pages , which are electronic documents that you
view using a Web page display program called a browser . You can use any of the commercially
available Web browsers, like Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator.
Web pages can contain text, animations, music, and other multimedia features. A group of related
Web pages is called a
Web site . You can access Web sites to shop, track investments, read the
news, download programs, and much more.
You can explore a Web site or visit other Web sites by clicking areas on a Web page called
links
or hyperlinks . A link may be colored or underlined text, a picture, or an animated image. You
can identify a link by moving the touchpad pointer over it. If the pointer changes to a hand, the
item is a link.
To learn more about using the Web browser features, click
Help in the menu bar.
Help
For general information about using Internet accounts, click Start , then click Help
and Support . Type the
ISP
in the Search Help box, then press E
NTER
.
Web
page
Link
Linked Web page