Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL): High-Speed Internet via Phone Lines

Learn how ADSL provides high-speed internet over phone lines, its benefits over cable, and its widespread availability, ideal for both home and rural areas.
Ars Technica

Is internet in every room through telephone lines as good as ethernet?

Probably not the best thread title. My current setup is. I have a DSL telephone copper line that runs from my street cabinet to my room where I have my computer and into the wireless routers port.
Hackaday

Grandma’s Phone, DSL, And The Copper They Share

My DSL line downloads at 6 megabits per second. I just ran the test. This is over a pair of copper twisted wires, the same Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) twisted pair that connected your ...
Houston Chronicle

How to Have a Landline Internet Connection and Phone at the Same Time

A Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) broadband connection uses the wiring placed for phone services to provide Internet access for your home or business. But the installation of DSL does not limit your ...
SFGate

Getting DSL without paying for phone line

Q: I'll be moving into a new place soon, and I've decided not to get regular telephone service because I rely almost exclusively on my cell phone. However, I will want to get high-speed Internet.
Ars Technica

Problems with analog phone line and DSL during rain

I'm trying to troubleshoot an Internet and phone problem for some people nearby. They've got bare DSL service through Earthlink now, and used to have an analog phone line. They're here in Silicon ...
Hackaday

DSL Is Barely Hanging On The Line As Telcos Stop Selling New Service

Are you reading this over AT&T DSL right now? If so, you might have to upgrade or go shopping for a new ISP soon. AT&T quietly stopped selling new traditional DSLs on October 1st, though they will ...
Computerworld

Can a simple line-card replacement do the DSL trick?

The folks at DSL equipment start-up Catena Networks all carry the company slogan, “Everyone Wants Broadband,” superimposed against the company logo on the back of their business cards. So you might ...
CNET

Qwest unties DSL from its phone service

The company will be the first Baby Bell to voluntarily offer its high-speed Internet service to customers regardless of whether they purchase Qwest's voice services. Marguerite Reardon started as a ...
The Baltimore Sun

DSL Net access comes to Baltimore; Infospeed: Bell Atlantic’s high-speed service lets users talk and surf the Web simultaneously over the same phone line.

Good news, city-dwelling Internet junkies: Affordable high-speed Web access has arrived. Bell Atlantic has quietly started offering its digital subscriber line service, Infospeed DSL, to parts of ...
Network World

Networking off one DSL line

We’ve seen DSL “modems” that connect to the DSL phone line on one side and have a USB port on the other. What happens when a user wants to network several computers off this connection? Are there ...