For people who just want a broadband Internet connection, trying to decide which wirelesss option is best  for them usually involves having to do ardous research into the alphabet soup of the broadband world.  3G/HSDPA/Iburst/WiMax etc Besides having to deal with this bewildering array of acronymns, each provider's marketing department is keen to tell you why their solution is the best, so reading their brochures is of little help. Usually they decend into technical discussions about frequencies with diagrammes showing how you will get the best broadband solution available.

It is amazing how quickly the Internet has become a critical part of our lives in such a small short of time. It is often easy to forget how reliant we have become on the Internet until a service interruption brings it home to us. Its like the beginning of this year when we all realised that without electricity and energy our way of life is unsustainable and therefore we had better plan to make it less vulnerable.

Many people are confused by the alphabet soup of broadband options that are available today and the marketing efforts of the various providers often serve to confuse. The net result is that people end up paying for functionality they don't need or use.

ADSL, 3G/HSDPA, iBurst?

When deciding which option, ADSL, 3G/HSDPA or iBurst is best for you should remember the following:

1) ADSL offers the best value for money, followed by iBurst and then 3G/HSDPA. Cost per Mb of data is by far the cheapest with ADSL.