How DSL works - Peripherals & Accessories

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by Luke P.

DSL, or Digital Subscriber Line, delivers broadband Internet service to customers over copper telephone lines. By utilizing a range of frequencies that we do not use for voice transmission, DSL is able to drive varying sp...read more
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by Robert Heintzman

Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL) works by using the light frequencies left over on your phone lines. In effect piggy-backing a digital signal into the analog signal of your fibre optic telephone line. The first thing you ...read more

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by Jeg Brown

How DSL works Think of your telephone line as a pipe. A human voice takes up some of the space in that pipe, but NOT very much. Usually between 300Hz and 3,400Hz. Even if there are two, five, or twenty people talking o...read more
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by Daniel Newman

DSL works like two radios, your telephone is using one radio channel while your internet is using another. These two different frequencies can be sent together without interfering with each other so that you can phone some...read more
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by Paul Dice

When we use the telephone line to make a call, only a small portion of the potential bandwidth of copper telephone wires or the plain old telephone system (POTS) is utilised. 28,800bps dial-up modems take the digital signa...read more
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by Shane Clayworth

DSL stands for Digital Subscriber Line. It is the common standard for carrying broadband signals over the internet for many home and business users. xDSL is the generic term to refer to various forms of DSL such as ADSL, S...read more
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by Jamison Lanum

I was astonished the day I heard the news that one could actually browse the internet while talking on the phone. I thought it was some sort of Black Magic that allowed the two to co-exist, and even more importantly run a ...read more

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