But that's a digression - DSL versus cable modem will be central to an upcoming Showdown column on these pages. BT has cut the cost of installing ADSL in the UK. BTopenworld, the division that sells ADSL to users, has halved its installation charge.
Upstream rates are theoretically slower for cable modem-based services (128Kbps versus 256Kbps for ADSL), but that has yet to bother me. OK, so we're not exactly talking gadgets, unless we stretch that term to the futuristic-looking modems both...
November: Complementary cable companies NTL and Telewest announce that for all the broadband woes in the UK, uptake of their high-speed services hasn't been half bad. About 100,000 people have broadband via ADSL now, slightly more do so through...
Despite the fact BT's slow roll-out of first-generation broadband technologies has been widely panned, it's already looking at the next stage.silicon.com has discovered the telco is evaluating a system called VDSL, or Very high-speed Digital...
In the longer term, more ways will emerge to deliver Ethernet to the subscriber, he said, including Ethernet over VDSL (a high speed DSL variant). Ericsson's Ethernet DSL Access is based on DSLAMs (DSL access modules - the systems which provide a...
Other types include SDSL (symmetrical DSL), HDSL (high data rate DSL), VDSL (very-high-bit-rate DSL), and even PDSL (powerline DSL). ADSL isn't the only type of DSL around, though it's by far the most common.