Ive heard that DSL is cool. What is it?
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) is an always-on, broadband connection to the Internet. The data signal is carried over your telephone line. DSL is billed per month for a fixed price, and for unlimited usage. Whether you use it for e-mail once a day, or you spend a considerable amount of hours online, your bill is always the same. Once you have a DSL line you can use the Internet in the same way you did from a dial-up modem, except you can use it 24 hours a day, with no connection delay. You can also use the Internet (although not always) without a ‘username’ and ‘password’, and without a busy signal or any connection/disconnection process. The key advantage of DSL over a dial-up modem is speed. DSL is fast–up to dozens of times faster than a dial-up modem connection. A complex Web page that could take up to a minute to finish downloading from a 56K modem can appear in just seconds over DSL. Plus, with DSL you can talk on the phone and use the Internet at the same time!
