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Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line – ADSL
Some of you may know all about the future of cables. I didn’t, so I did some research, and for the people like me, I’m posting what I found. Don’t be a hater.
ADSL
This operates on the ‘duplex transmission method’ (allowing data to travel in both directions at the same time) at a rate of 6 megabits per second, 100 times faster than ISDN. It’s termed ‘asymmetric’ since most of the data transfer is in the downstream mode (internet supplier to pc).
Along with data transmission, a portion of the bandwidth can be used for voice transmission at the same time to allow the use of the phone and high speed internet connection simultaneously.
The practical use of this will be that without sacrificing speed or quality of games, it will be possible not only to see, but hear your fellow gamers, giving almost all the human interactionof mates around a tv. Also trash talking your oponents always sounds better when you’ve not just been killed as a sitting duck while at the keyboard.
Also, it eliminates the conflict of someone wanting to use the phone mid-game, preventing te annoying nagging at your consience when you make your gran wait for you to finish a game before she can call herself an ambulance (even though you know if she puts her fingers in the freezer they’ll be able to sew them right back on again at the hospital).
At the moment, BT offers ADSL at £40 per month with a £150 instalation charge, though at limited availability. The standard ‘home 500’ service works downstream at 500 kbps, upstream at 250 kbps, going up to the best package, ‘business 2000 plus’, downstream at 2000 kbps, upstream at 250 kbps (take a look at btopenworld.com). Currently, however, the service is only available for data transmission. We’re likely to have to wait a while before voice transmission is available on the same service.
Looking to the future, we can expect competition to force prices down, and eventually this technology should mean that a single phone line is capable of serving all data and voice transmission needs at a great standard of performance.
The future’s bright. The future’s fast.
Some of you may know all about the future of cables. I didn’t, so I did some research, and for the people like me, I’m posting what I found. Don’t be a hater.
ADSL
This operates on the ‘duplex transmission method’ (allowing data to travel in both directions at the same time) at a rate of 6 megabits per second, 100 times faster than ISDN. It’s termed ‘asymmetric’ since most of the data transfer is in the downstream mode (internet supplier to pc).
Along with data transmission, a portion of the bandwidth can be used for voice transmission at the same time to allow the use of the phone and high speed internet connection simultaneously.
The practical use of this will be that without sacrificing speed or quality of games, it will be possible not only to see, but hear your fellow gamers, giving almost all the human interactionof mates around a tv. Also trash talking your oponents always sounds better when you’ve not just been killed as a sitting duck while at the keyboard.
Also, it eliminates the conflict of someone wanting to use the phone mid-game, preventing te annoying nagging at your consience when you make your gran wait for you to finish a game before she can call herself an ambulance (even though you know if she puts her fingers in the freezer they’ll be able to sew them right back on again at the hospital).
At the moment, BT offers ADSL at £40 per month with a £150 instalation charge, though at limited availability. The standard ‘home 500’ service works downstream at 500 kbps, upstream at 250 kbps, going up to the best package, ‘business 2000 plus’, downstream at 2000 kbps, upstream at 250 kbps (take a look at btopenworld.com). Currently, however, the service is only available for data transmission. We’re likely to have to wait a while before voice transmission is available on the same service.
Looking to the future, we can expect competition to force prices down, and eventually this technology should mean that a single phone line is capable of serving all data and voice transmission needs at a great standard of performance.
The future’s bright. The future’s fast.
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Catches from the Clincton Pool
Oh right.......cables.
no...he means cables....
Cables.........you mean modems....
Did you bore her to death? :-)
I did try picking my friends nose once actually Wookiee, she wasnt too impressed, and propmtly slapped me.
Still, if you dont try you never know....
:-)
Still, if you dont try you never know....
:-)
You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose.
But you can't pick your friends nose.
But you can't pick your friends nose.
Rather not, if it's all the same to you... :-)
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