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The reason why cable internet blew past DSL is that cable internet runs over coaxial cable that was designed to be a radio frequency transmission line and is ma
by No1 12y ago
The reason why cable internet blew past DSL is that cable internet runs over coaxial cable that was designed to be a radio frequency transmission line and is maintained to deliver video signal, whereas DSL runs over ancient copper pairs that are barely maintained well enough to deliver crappy audio.
- rayiner 12y agoNot true--the U.K. has had good success incrementally upgrading their DSL network by pushing fiber closer to the home and using higher-speed DSL technologies that require shorter loop lengths. I actually have an FTTP implementation of FiOS, where we get fiber to each floor and then VDSL2 to each apartment. It delivers a rock-solid 50/15 connection.