Texas Instruments (TI) is opening a DSL (digital subscriber line) modem factory in Bejing, China, with Legend Group - the country's largest PC maker. The two companies will work together on a DSL consumer modem based on TI's DSL chips.
ADSL is more suitable for residential users and small businesses as they would mostly use it for downstream access, that's to say downloading from the internet, but having upstream speed requirements of much less than 2Mbps," Johnson explains.
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...
David Rickards, managing director of Pipex, said BT was simply shoving as much data as possible down Pipex's single 155 Mbps pipe. He commented: "Users may legitimately ask their ISP, 'Why did you get me to sign up by saying this is miles better...
It has been around since the late eighties and in its fastest configuration can deliver downstream speeds of 52Mbps - nearly a thousand times faster than a conventional modem, over existing copper telephone wires.
What's more, a fully contended consumer ADSL line (50:1) gives a lower possible throughput than a clean 56K modem. Most smaller organisations and home users (those who BT has deigned to connect, that is) are finding Asymmetrical DSL (ADSL) the most...