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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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Further to the NTL info:
Having the basic package (one phone line, cheaper than BT all round) is around £10/month.
You can get the cable modem with free installation, then you have 2 payment options:
1. Rent the cable modem and pay £25/month for the connection.
2. Buy the cable modem for £150 (it's yours to keep) and pay £19.99/month for the connection.
Speed is *upto* 512K/sec downstream and 128K/sec upstream, depending on network load.
There's a nice little demo of it, and a lot more info, at http://www.askntl.com/broadband
Having the basic package (one phone line, cheaper than BT all round) is around £10/month.
You can get the cable modem with free installation, then you have 2 payment options:
1. Rent the cable modem and pay £25/month for the connection.
2. Buy the cable modem for £150 (it's yours to keep) and pay £19.99/month for the connection.
Speed is *upto* 512K/sec downstream and 128K/sec upstream, depending on network load.
There's a nice little demo of it, and a lot more info, at http://www.askntl.com/broadband
thanks
You can also register with NTL, you have to get the standard £10 a month package, but if youpay another £25 a month, you can have cable modem.
Cable modems give you pings of around 70ms to most UK servers, which is about as fast as you can get.
You can also download at up to 70KBps, about 12 times as fast as a 56k modem.
One thing Dr Duck, be careful with your figures. Most telecommunications companies quote Kbps, which is KiloBITS per second, not KiloBYTES per second. There are 8 bits in a byte, so some of the numbers you have said need to be divided by 8 to get into the correct units.
Cable modems give you pings of around 70ms to most UK servers, which is about as fast as you can get.
You can also download at up to 70KBps, about 12 times as fast as a 56k modem.
One thing Dr Duck, be careful with your figures. Most telecommunications companies quote Kbps, which is KiloBITS per second, not KiloBYTES per second. There are 8 bits in a byte, so some of the numbers you have said need to be divided by 8 to get into the correct units.
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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