Re: ADSL or DSL

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Newport wrote:

Thanks Ken

I'm in France and here is ADSL


You're welcome. Glad to help.

Yes, I noticed the news.wanadoo.fr, which was why I added the "in the USA"
comment.

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"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Leythos wrote:

In article <441aa6d5$0$20169$8fcfb975@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
*********@xxx.xx says...

what's the difference between DSL and ADSL or is the same thing?

DSL is the generic name for either ADSL or SDSL. in ADSL you have
two speeds generally, and ADSL is generally residential grade. In
SDSL both up/down are the same speed and it's a better quality than
ADSL normally.


And to add to that, most of the DSL that's commonly available (in
the USA anyway--I don't know about the rest of the world) is ADSL. I
have ADSL here, and I don't even think that SDSL is a choice.

By the way, for the benefit of the OP, ADSL stands for Asynchronous
DSL (different upload and download speeds) and SDSL is Synchronous
DSL (same upload and download speeds).

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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