It was only designed, few people have heard the term "provider". And now this word is constantly heard. It can be translated from English as "supplying" (that is, "provider"). This is a legal entity - a company that provides Internet connection services. However, let's, as usual, understand the essence of the phenomenon in order.
Brief classification
In addition to supplying a connection, such pleasant appendages as hosting services, a licensed antivirus for Windows OS, a DNS server, an e-mail box are possible. Of course, if the office is reputable and cares about increasing the number of clients.
However, the concept of "hosting provider" is not very popular. More often they just say "hosting", meaning the services of providing space for the site and generally storing something on the server.
The first level is backbone providers. They manage, respectively, backbone channels, providing Internet connections for entire countries or even continents, pumping unimaginable amounts of data at fantastic speeds. Usually via fiber optic cables and satellite links.
The second level is firms that:
- connect to trunk lines and pay them for traffic;
- resell traffic to the population.
Maybe the third level - offices that resell traffic again. This is true away from large cities, in the wilderness. In any case, the one who provides the connection directly to the user is called the "last mile provider".
Last mile
The aforementioned consumer connection can be delivered: 1) by cables, most often - by wires of the telephone network; 2) by radio.
A typical case of servicing an average apartment is connecting to the telephone line of a router with a Wi-Fi adapter. The local home network is over-the-air, but the connection with the provider is wired.
Sometimes you can still find inexpensive GPRS / EDGE modems. They are suitable if a high data transfer rate is not required. However, more about practicality.
How to live with it
Suppose you, as a home user, have implemented the following: 1) entered into an agreement with a provider; 2) purchased a laptop for work. Some taciturn people came to you, somewhere on a shelf next to a landline telephone they put a router, screwed on the wires, glanced at if the Wi-Fi network was working, and left.
Now, as soon as connection interruptions begin, you will have to call and be indignant. Or suffer in silence if phone line doesn't work either.
V daytime you can go with a laptop anywhere in the city center, where there are open Wi-Fi networks, explored by you in advance. And what to do if there is no connection in the office? You can't send the whole office to work in a cafe or supermarket. Means:
- we stick a 3G modem into one of the computers;
- we turn this machine into a local server capable of distributing a connection received through a mobile connection to the entire office.
That is, a computer with a cellular modem can serve as an access point to the Internet. This feature is implemented in any self-respecting operating system.
True, all social networks will have to be blocked, because mobile traffic, as a rule, is not unlimited.
Conclusion
Ordinary users cannot practically influence the activities of backbone providers, they have nothing to do with them (with rare exceptions). But on the other hand, they are able to improve the quality of service on the last mile. In what way? Boycott the hack-work shops. And tell your friends, acquaintances, at work, in blogs and forums about them. The market will do the rest with its self-regulation.
And, of course, when choosing a provider, wired or mobile (his modem), you should be guided not by motley advertising, but by the already existing reviews of ordinary people.
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You can check information about your service company in different ways:
- Internet service connection agreement
- Dedicated online service
If the contract was not at hand, the resource 2ip.ru will help out. Go to the site - on the main page your IP-address will be displayed, in the column on the left - the city and the name of the provider.
- Home address
- Using a modem or landline phone
How to find out the Internet provider at
To find out which Internet providers are already present in your home, use the services 101internet.ru or moskvaonline.ru. Site searches are based on the same algorithm, except for the selection of a region on the Moscow site.
In the "Search by home address" window, enter the street and select the house number from the list that opens - you get a list of organizations with a description of tariff plans.
The home address search service is useful for different purposes - some are looking for a new supplier, others want to change their tariff plan to a more profitable one.
Internet speed test
On the 2ip.ru website, you can determine the speed of the Internet of providers that provide services in different cities.
The check displays the average value of the outgoing and incoming speed for the last month. You will also see a list of the last measurements and a graph of speed changes for 3 months.
To do this, go to the "Internet speed statistics" section.
Thus, the user sees real indicators that can be checked before concluding a contract.
Analysts and user ratings help to form the final choice in favor of a particular provider.
The best offers from internet providers
Regardless of whether the user is connected to the network or chooses which provider to use, the moskvaonline.ru service will be a useful advisor for residents of Moscow and the Moscow region.
In Moscow, the minimum cost of a connection package with a speed of 30 Megabits / sec is approximately 300 rubles. For seasonal promotions, you can find cheaper - up to 199 rubles. per month. For broadband access of 100 Megabits / sec you will have to pay 500-600 rubles.
Provider rating
1. Even if you are satisfied with the quality and speed of access, the 2ip.ru service will help you track new profitable offers in different cities of Russia.
To do this, go to the "Ratings of Internet providers" section.
2. The moskvaonline.ru website has compiled a rating of companies that serve Internet users in Moscow and the Moscow region.
Tariff parameters are configured:
- Presence of digital TV
- Unlimited tariff
- Connection only with round-the-clock technical support
- Subscription fee restrictions
- Internet speed
There are a lot of interesting, polyphonic words in the modern world. XX century - century information technologies brought us many additional terms and definitions - Internet, browser, provider.
About modern technologies
It's hard for us to imagine that there were times when there was no Internet ... There was no way to download new products from the world of cinema and music. It was impossible to "go out" to the INTERNET.
And now, it's time to figure out - where he came from. So, we all have a computer, laptop, tablet. But this is only half the success. To access the Internet you need a PROVIDER.
Provider
And there are a million such ads - in every city. Translated from English, the word –provider– literally means a supplier. Numerous companies provide Internet service providers for Internet access. The service delivery scheme is as follows:
- You are submitting a request to obtain the information you are interested in.
- The server (one more new word) processes this request and connects you to a specific virtual page from the global INTERNET system.
- The server of the remote provider connects your computer to the global network.
Interesting. Where do providers get the internet from? In total, there are about a dozen large providers in the world, they are sometimes called backbone. Accordingly, they distribute the Internet to large territories.
Conclusion
Everything seems to be simple. However, it is important to remember. Internet service providers charge users for their services. Different providers can set their own tariffs.
Choosing a provider is not always easy, so use the advice of friends or acquaintances when choosing a good and high-quality provider.
ISP(from the English. provider) - a company that provides any services.
ISP - sometimes just provider, (eng. Internet Service Provider, ISP, letters. "Internet service provider") - an organization that provides Internet access services and other Internet-related services. From the point of view of Russian law, an Internet service provider is a telecom operator licensed for one of the following types of services:
- communication services for the provision of communication channels;
- communication services in the data transmission network, except for the transmission of voice information;
- communication services for the transmission of voice information in the data transmission network;
- telematic communication services.
Services provided by your ISP may include:
- broadband Internet access;
- dial-up Internet access;
- wireless Internet access;
- allocation of disk space for storing and ensuring the operation of sites (hosting);
support for mailboxes or virtual mail server; - placement of client equipment at the provider's site (colocation);
- lease of dedicated and virtual servers ( VDS or VPS);
- data backup;
- other.
ISPs can be categorized into types in accordance with the services provided:
- access providers;
- hosting providers;
- trunk (eng. backbone) providers;
- channel providers;
- last mile providers;
- other.
Among the access providers, one can distinguish primary (trunk)- owning trunk communication channels - and secondary (urban)- leasing communication channels from primary ones. Primary providers usually sell traffic only in large volumes and provide services to providers other than individual users, although there are exceptions.
Mobile Commerce Service Provider (mCSP - Mobile Commerce Service Provider) - a company or organization providing software and systems for mobile platforms ecommerce in order to install them on mobile devices (cell phones, smartphones).
The mobile commerce service provider is also involved in the production of mobile content, its sale, the creation of mobile websites, the provision of consulting services and the integration of receiving mobile payments on the Internet, mass media. In other words, thanks to the provider, mobile devices become a means of non-cash payments. Today with the help cell phone it became possible to pay for all kinds of goods and services both on the Internet and outside it.
Mobile banking, digital content purchases and mobile payments are slowly gaining the trust of service users mCommerce... Mobile commerce service providers are constantly developing new technologies to make payment by phone more convenient, more affordable and safer.
Areas of activity for mobile commerce providers:
- billing systems;
- text messaging services;
- hardware and software development;
- mobile payments;
- website creation and hosting;
- online marketing.
Information provider- company or individual, which on behalf of another person sends, receives, stores electronic documents or provides other services in relation to these documents. The definition of the term is contained in Art. 3 FZ "On e-commerce"Adopted by the State Duma of the Russian Federation in the first reading by Resolution N1582-III GD dated June 6, 2001.
In this article we will talk about who the providers are and how they work.
Everyone needs several components to connect to the Internet - a computer, a browser and a provider. If you have a computer, then you definitely have a browser, it remains only to deal with the provider. Let's find out who he is and how to find him.
What is an Internet Service Provider?
A provider is a company that has special equipment and is able to provide access to the Internet. Simply put, it is a supplier.
To start using the possibilities of the Internet, you need to get access to the servers of the provider, through which he provides the required connection.
There are millions of users on the Internet today, but there are very few companies that are able to provide access to it. So customers can only get a small fraction of the overall capacity of the channel. What exactly the speed will be is determined by the type of connection, as well as the purchased tariff. The latter are everywhere and the more expensive the tariff, the more speed you get. Accordingly, if you want full unlimited access without any restrictions at all, you will have to connect the most expensive tariff.
When drawing up the contract, the client is provided with a username and password, by which the user is identified.
How the Internet connection is made: diagram
Let's talk about how your computer and ISP communicate.
For example, you got a stable connection between your computer and the desired server. In other words, you are now a customer of the provider. With the help of a special program, usually a browser, a request is sent from a computer to a server to receive data.
The server processes the request and sends it to the server where the page is saved. All sites and other information that may be present on the Internet are stored on such servers.
The Internet server receives the request and, if it can transmit what you ask, then sends it to the provider's server. Accordingly, the provider then transmits the result to your computer.
The result of this chain is the loading of the site in the browser on the monitor. If in some place the chain is interrupted, then an alert will open about the impossibility of loading the desired site.
How and where to find a provider?
Each provider has specific service areas. It is difficult to name any one company that would work everywhere. Although, there are such - this is MTS, Rostelecom and other popular operators. They are the providers.
There are others who only work in certain areas. So if you want to connect high speed internet, then ask your friends, maybe they will tell you where to turn to and which Internet is more profitable.
When connecting to the Internet, there are a few things to keep in mind.
Connection features
The sequence of connecting the Internet consists of several stages, regardless of whether there is a router or not.
First, we select a suitable provider that will provide access to the Internet. It is important to note that you do not have to go far for this, because each provider has its own website. Open the resource and see the following data:
- Requirements for your hardware, it is possible that it is provided
- Internet capabilities - unlimited, limit, work area, other nuances
- Tariff cost
- Terms of Service - is it free, how to pay, and so on
After that, contact the supplier's office or leave a request in any other suggested way. Ask all your questions after the operator's call.
After drawing up a contract with the provider and signing it, the work is included technical support... A time is assigned for the work, and a master comes to you who will do everything necessary.
Look at the supplier's website for the rules for setting up the equipment if you are setting it yourself.
In the same place, see how the computer and other gadgets are configured so that you can work with the Internet without problems. In general, no additional settings are required, but there are exceptions.
Do not forget about timely payment for Internet services and everything will work well. If problems arise, then most often they are eliminated by technical support.
Payment features
The internet is never free. But it is not always the computer user who pays for access. Sometimes Wi-fi can be used to connect to the Internet for free. Basically, this opportunity is provided in a cafe and in public places... The connection can be password protected and provided only to clients.
Features of tariffing
There are tariffs where the Internet is provided with a per-minute tariff. In other words, you pay for the time you spend on the Internet. And there are tariffs where payment is made for traffic or it is generally unlimited. This option is much more profitable and find out if you need it before connecting. Otherwise, at the end of the month you may end up with a very large bill that you definitely won't like.
Connection methods
Internet connection is carried out different methods... The slowest connection is through a simple modem or telephone line.
The best of all are high speed connection types:
- ADSL Is a fast data exchange using a telephone line
- LAN- carried out via a dedicated line. To make this connection, the provider must run a wire from their equipment to your
- WLAN- carried out by connecting via a SIM card
It should be noted that these types of connections are not available everywhere. It is also important that the choice of the connection method is determined not depending on the preferences of the client, but on the area of his residence.
Although, everything is changing very quickly and gradually tariffs and connection methods are developing and changing. So over time, it will be possible to change the tariff for a more suitable one or even change the service provider.
When using the Internet from a provider, you must understand that you are paying exclusively for the Internet. After setting up just one line, it can be used for different computers and gadgets.
It is important to say that if your Internet is connected via a regular wire, then you can configure the router and distribute Wi-fi through it. This will allow you to be on the Internet at the same time from different devices.
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