what's the difference between DSL and broadband?
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broadband = high speed internet. DSL = a type of broadband that works through your phone line. Compare to cable which works via your TV cable :)
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Broadband is a service that uses your phone line, but does not stop you making calls simultaneously. Dial up uses your phone line but actually makes a call so you can't use it.\n\nBroadband connections are often also a lot faster.\n\nOther common browsers are:\nNetscape\nOpera\nFirefox\nMozilla
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ADSL is just one kind of DSL. That is, DSL is a superset and is a generic term of all different kinds of Digital Subscriber Line services that are provided over a telephone line by a telephone company. The capabilities are provisioned differently based on which kind of DSL you want.\n\nADSL = Asymmetric DSL, which means your connection speed will not be the same when you go from your home to the internet and when information comes down from the internet to your home. Since you tend to pull more info from the internet to your home PC, that speed is 10 times faster than the speed at which your browser sends the http address to the internet.\n\nTypical ADSL speeds to your home are 8Mbps - 30Mbps\nTypical ADSL speeds to the internet are 800kbps - 1.5Mbps\n\nDetailed tutorial: http://www.tutorial-reports.com/networking/broadband
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They dropped you for a reason, my friend.  Call the toll free number located on your statement and find out why they no longer provide service.\n\nNote to a few of the others who answered: DSL is a form of broadband.  Broadband is a category, DSL is a service within that category.
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ISDN is basically a faster "dial up" it is two 64k channels bonded to make 128K of bandwidth. DSL is an internet service provided by the phone company and can be as fast as 1.5mps to the internet.
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Get DSL it is just as fast and it uses a phone line, and plus no one has to come to your house to hook it up.  It also costs less than cable internet.
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one is dsl, and one is cable. they are not the same.
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Yes!  Most Internet Service Providers include a Router.  This provides a DHCP Service (Provides IP addresses to computers requesting one) as well as a NAT Service (Network Address Translation - Provides a "mapping" of local computers IP address to Pubic IP address"\nBoth DSL and Cable use Digital Signals.  This allows both VOICE and DATA to use the Broadband at the same time.
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usually At&t DSL is as cheap as AOl, and it uses a phone line. Remeber DSL not dial-up. You can get a router with built-in wireless from At&T.
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It is not different.  It is DSL or Cable.  Unless it is a T1, 2, or 3 line.\nHigh speed internet service is so called because once everybody had dial-up, top speed 56kbs.
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The only difference between the dial up student and the broadband student is *how long* they will have to wait before they see the audio/video. Since (on average) broadband is 50 times faster then dial up, the dial-up student will have to wait 50 times as long before then can see the audio/video portions of blackboard.\n\nI suggest you giving the dial up student a copy of the content on CD, or have them find a faster internet connection.
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Cable is definitely fastest, but if you have problems with your BB cable service - and assuming no other cable companies can offer your service - then DSL has to be your next option.  DSL in general aren't as fast, but still acceptable for typical web surfing, internet games, etc.  Of course, there is a possibility that you live too far from the central office, making DSL not an option.  Then, satellite should be your last option.  It is for sure not as fast as cable, but can still be 5x to 10x faster than dial-up.  There is a new offering from a company called Wildblue.  The link below will provide the installation and per month cost, but it really should be the last option.\n\nhttp://www.wildblue.com/forYourHome/index.jsp
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Cable is typically 3Mbps or faster throughput, and DSL is usually limited to 1 or less. You can get business DSL and get faster speeds, but the latency on cable is much faster then DSL. The company I work for the majority of my employees use Cable and I suggest cable just because of that reason. Cable can actually reach speeds of 10Mpbs a second I beleive and DSL is pretty limited as cable companies I've heard across the US are upgrading the speed already from what its at now.
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(m)\n\nBroadband Internet access, often shortened to "broadband Internet" or just "broadband", is a high data-transmission rate internet connection. DSL and cable modem, both popular consumer broadband technologies, are typically capable of transmitting 256 kilobits per second or more, starting at approximately four times the speed of a modem using a standard digital telephone line.\n\nBroadband Internet access became a rapidly developing market in many areas in the early 2000s; one study found that broadband Internet usage in the United States grew from 6% in June 2000 to over 30% in 2003.[1]\n\nModern consumer broadband implementations, up to 30 Mbit/s, are several hundred times faster than those available at the time of the popularization of the Internet (such as ISDN and 56 kbit/s) while costing less than ISDN and sometimes no more than 56 kbit/s; though performance and costs vary widely between countries.\nBroadband is often called high-speed Internet, because it usually has a high rate of data. In general, any connection to the customer of 256 kbit/s (0.256 Mbit/s) or more is considered broadband Internet. The International Telecommunication Union Standardization Sector (ITU-T) recommendation I.113 has defined broadband as a transmission capacity that is faster than primary rate ISDN, at 1.5 to 2 Mbit/s. The FCC definition of broadband is 200 kbit/s (0.2 Mbit/s) in one direction, and advanced broadband is at least 200 kbit/s in both directions. The OECD has defined broadband as 256 kbit/s in at least one direction and this bit rate is the most common baseline that is marketed as "broadband" around the world. There is no specific bitrate defined by the industry, however, and "broadband" can mean lower-bitrate transmission methods. Some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) use this to advantage, in marketing lower-bitrate connections as broadband.\n\nIn practice, the advertised bandwidth is not always reliably available to the customer; ISPs often allow a greater number of subscribers than their backbone connection can handle, under the assumption that most users will not be using their full connection capacity very frequently. This aggregation strategy works more often than not, so users can typically burst to their full bandwidth most of the time; however, peer-to-peer file sharing systems, often requiring extended durations of high bandwidth, stress these assumptions, and can cause major problems for ISPs who have excessively overbooked their capacity. For more on this topic, see traffic shaping. As takeup for these introductory products increases, telcos are starting to offer higher bit rate services. For existing connections, this most of the time simply involves reconfiguring the existing equipment at each end of the connection.\n\nAs the bandwidth delivered to end-users increases, the market expects that video on demand services streamed over the Internet will become more popular, though at the present time such services generally require specialised networks. The data rates on most broadband services still do not suffice to provide good quality video, as MPEG-2 quality video requires about 6 Mbit/s for good results. Adequate video for some purposes becomes possible at lower data rates, with rates of 768 kbit/s and 384 kbit/s used for some video conferencing applications. The MPEG-4 format delivers high-quality video at 2 Mbit/s, at the high end of cable modem and ADSL performance.
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Ultimately speed.  ISDN is older technology and has speed caps far less than that of DSL (ADSL being a form of DSL).  ISDN data channels cap at i believe 16kb/s and 64kb/s where as DSL can exceed 7mb/s.
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Broadband over Power Line (BPL) is a technology that allows Internet data to be transmitted over utility power lines. A subscriber installs a modem that plugs into an ordinary wall outlet and pays a subscription fee similar to those paid for other types of Internet service.\n2/1/06
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Cable Internet service IS a type of 'broadband'.\n\nContact your Cable provider for Internet service.\n\nThere are MANY areas of the country, and the cities around where I live that cannot receive DSL due to the distance from a phone exchange.  Some phone companies are starting to put 'repeating' stations up in order to extend their DSL coverage area.\n\nthe cable service is FAR better in my area.