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Old 01-03-2008, 22:32   #21
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Re: Virgin Wireless
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Originally Posted by Tech_Boy View Post
basically it boils down to

ADSL = via BT phoneline

DSL = Via Cable
Errm...no ADSL = Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line... ie Downstream is faster than upstream.

ADSL is just a variant of DSL. There are different flavours of DSL (ie VDSL = Very high speed Digital Subscriber Line)


Cable is completely different in the way it works. And is always on truely as there's no need to dialup. You technically still need to dialup to ADSL even though its faster.
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