1.   An alternative is to use a fast Internet connection at an office or university.

2.   And backing up over the Net can be excruciatingly slow unless you have a very fast connection.

3.   And people who have access to fast connections at work have grown intolerant of waiting for Web pages to load at home.

4.   At first these will simply allow more television channels and a fast Internet connection.

5.   Both have become highly reliable, and both offer very fast connection speeds, especially for file downloads.

6.   Both worked well for the most part, providing a fast connection for transferring files and even playing digital music over the network.

7.   A middle-of-the-road computer with a fast connection will run circles around it.

8.   ADSL modems offer lightning fast Internet connections, which reminds consumers of the value of hard-wired telephony.

9.   But establishing a fast connection between them has meant incurring the huge cost of running fiber-optic cable all the way to the front door.

10.   But to really take work on the road, you need a wireless connection as fast as the wired service you have in the office.