What is ADSL?

Answer 1

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line ADSL connections are becoming more and more widely available and can provide an excellent internet connection. The connections work by splitting your phone line into two separate channels, one for data (internet) and one for voice (phone calls) which means you can talk on the phone and be connected to the internet at the same time. You will often see ADSL connection services advertised as having different speed specifications, below are some common configurations:

- 56Kbps/128Kbps

- 512Kbps/128Kbps

- 1Mbps/256Kbps Notice there are two values to each configuration, the first figure states the download speed and the second figure is the maximum upload speed. The acronym 'ADSL" stands for Asynchronus Digital Subscriber Line.

Asynchronous means that data rates for Upstream Throughput (transmission from your PC to the internet) and Downstream Throughput (Transmission from the internet to your PC) are not equal. Usually the downstream rate is 5-10 times faster than the upstream.

For most home users, this is preferred, as they will be receiving much more information than they will be sending.

Business users and Web designers may benefit more by SDSL (Synchronous DSL), where the upstream and downstream throughputs are the same, allowing for faster uploads, with a minor sacrifice in download speed.

Answer 2

ADSL stands for Asynchronous Digital Subscribers Line. This basically replaced the dial-up modems that we had.

Before,as we had seen,we could not talk and browse the net simultaneously.But with the advent of ADSL modems we can do so.

The reason for this being, the adsl modem converts the voice and data into analog(electrical) signals of 2 different frequencies and hence, now can be sent as two separate channels of streams.

Answer 3

DSL=Digital Subscriber Line- A dedicated WAN technology that uses advanced data modulation techniques at the physical layer to achieve extraordinary throughput over regular phone lines. DSL comes in several different varieties, the most common of which is asymmetric DSL (ADSL).

ADSL=Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

Both are DSL but DSL or symmetric DSL has the same throughput(or how much data can be sent/received)

Asymmetric DSL has more data that can be received over sent, for use on the commercial level mostly(for video streaming and such) Is used by the consumer who isn't sending large amounts of data, such as if the user was a VIDEO HOST and would need to send all that data quickly to stream it.

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Answer 4

ADSL stands for Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line.

ADLS/ADLS2+ broadband through the landline and is fixed to one address, it has fast speeds of up to 24 Mbps on ADLS2+. Speeds are affected by the distance from the home to the telephone exchange with speed deteriorating over distance.

Answer 5

Asymmetric digital subscriber line.