Also known as "getting on the Net," an Internet connection is the communication sustained between your computer and an Internet Service Provider (ISP) such as SBC Internet Services. Your computer uses a dial or DSL modem to connect to the Internet.

a hardwired connection to the Phone Line, using the Post-Switch Telephone Network

a set of instructions that tells the computer to connect to the Internet in a certain manner, using certain parameters

a two way connection

a type of network connection

This is the connection between a personal computer and the Internet and may be by cable modems, dsl modems, ISDN line, dial-up modem, satellite link, fixed wireless connection, etc. The type of connection affects the speed with which users can download files across the Internet. Speed can range from 56 K (kilobytes per second) in a dial-up modem to 3 mbps (Megabytes per second) with the cable modems and up to 100 mpbs with ISDN lines.

A computer that is connected to other computers (the internet) via modem (examples: telephone, cable, DSL).

either of the following: an account permitting you to use your modem to call an Internet computer with your computer; or a wire coming directly from an Internet computer to you. Either way, it's not free.