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ADSL connections over the same physical wire as a phone line can often get several Mbps.
by takluyver 14y ago
ADSL connections over the same physical wire as a phone line can often get several Mbps.
- simonh 14y agoBut ADSL only goes as far as the exchange before being routed onto an IP backbone network. With modem signals the same signal goes over a voice circuit (albeit a virtual one) all the way to the receiving modem. They're not at all the same thing.
- InclinedPlane 14y agoThat's the point. People make sweeping assumptions about the limitations of something, and then someone else changes the ground underneath those assumptions and makes the cconclusions invalid. DSL, for example, is not much more difficult in terms of capital equipment cost compared to dialup and it doesn't require running a new line to the home, but the bandwidth available is a thousand times greater than the previous "hard" limit of phone land line based networking.