Re: A83: OT: Free DSL

To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A83: OT: Free DSL
From: ComAsYuAre@aol.com
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:21:47 EST
Reply-To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org

In a message dated 1/20/00 3:19:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
laurensh1@yahoo.com writes:

> Too bad they don't offer such a thing in the Netherlands, by the way. Since
>  a few months we've got a dozen of free internet-providers, but the
>  telephone-service doesn't support ADSL yet, only ISDN... (Btw, isn't the
>  abbrevation ADSL instead of DSL??? At least all documents I read about
>  it -not that much- referred to it as ADSL. I think A stands for Analog)
>  (*snif*)

There are two types of DSL: asynchronous (ADSL) and synchronous (SDSL).  ADSL 
has different speeds for uploads and downloads (with downloads generally 
being faster) while SDSL is the same speed for both.  Afaik, ADSL is more 
efficient, though I'm not sure why.

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Jonah Cohen
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