Thread: How ADSL Broadband Internet Works

How ADSL Broadband Internet Works

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) is a technology whick enables data transfer over traditional copper wire telephone lines at a much faster rate. In ADSL technology the phone line is divided into many channels which enable faster data transfer to your computer which makes it much faster than a dialup internet, another advantage in comparison to dialup is that you can even talk on your phone while you are transferring data, its because a separate channel is reserved for voice calls.

In more technical way data is transferred by utilizing frequencies that are not used by voice calls. A microfilter or splitter is used at customers end which separates a single line into two for data transfer and voice calls which is used by ADSL Modem and a telephone respectively.

In ADSL Broadband we can download more data than what we can upload its because more channels are provided for downloading data than uploading, since downloading and uploading are not same it has got the name "Asymmetric", Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line.

Using ADSL technology at present we can get a speed up to 24Mbps.

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