From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 22 4:13:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F96637B417 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 04:13:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from lungfish.ntlworld.com ([62.253.145.21]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with ESMTP id <20011222121346.KFWH327.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@lungfish.ntlworld.com>; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 12:13:46 +0000 Received: from boog.goatsucker.org (boog.goatsucker.org [192.168.1.3]) by lungfish.ntlworld.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBMCDin18362; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 12:13:44 GMT (envelope-from scott@boog.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by boog.goatsucker.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA00976; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 12:13:12 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 12:13:11 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: Mark Woodson Cc: Joe & Fhe Barbish , FBSD Questions Subject: Re: any difference between cable(TV) and phone line high speed internet Message-ID: <20011222121311.A216@localhost> References: <003801c18b1e$4c3201f0$0100a8c0@screamer> <5.1.0.14.0.20011221170859.02700d68@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011221170859.02700d68@127.0.0.1>; from mwoodson@bacxs.com on Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:17:56PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:17:56PM -0500, Mark Woodson wrote: > At 02:34 PM 12/21/2001 -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > >Is that also true for ADSL which is different that DSL? > > xDSL (DSL) comes in a couple of flavors, the most common of which are > ADSL and SDSL. You are not sharing bandwidth with your neighbors for any > of these, but... > > A stands for Asynchronous and the bandwidth available is different > upstream and downstream, typically something like 128kbs up and 754kbs > down, or 384kbs up and 1.5Mbs down. > > S stands for synchronous and means that the upstream and downstream are > the same, speeds for this vary (from ISDN similar 128kbs, up to 2Mbs). > This is primarly targeted at businesses and while less expensive on the > whole than a T1, etc. isn't cheap by any stretch. I believe that the A and D stand for (A)Symmetric rather than (A)Synchronous. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message