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From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Digital Subscriber Lines 
To: "Brian" <ircd@wrath.com>, <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>
In-Reply-To: Brian's message of Tue, 12 Jun 2001 14:59:17 -0400
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> I was just curious, because I saw DSL installed at a house once.  They ran a
> wire through the crawlspace and put a new RJ12 wallplate on the wall (There
> was already a RJ12 wallplate about four feet away) and then used some kind
> of goofy converter to hook up the DSL modem.

There's a splitter that separates the plain telephone audio
frequencies from the higher frequencies used for the data connection.
The high-frequency part is then connected to the DSL modem.

-- Richard


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