On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:55:37 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


"Martin H. Eastburn" wrote:

DSL has a limited length in feet or meters.
Not miles. The twisted pair goes to a server bay then to optic.
Many cities are optic in the front yard or at the corner.

ADSL is taking over for normal DSL. Advanced... :-)


No, it's ' Asynchronous', which is different upload and download
speeds.

No. As I said above its "Asymmetric".

Asynchronous does get involved, but that's in the ATM Asynchronous Transfer
Mode that is used as the switched circuit protocol that carries the ADSL

Mark Rand (network admin for too many years)
RTFM