What is difference between ADSL and a normal dial up connection?
Price – ADSL connections will cost more than a standard Dial-up connection. This is simply because ADSL offers far superior connection speeds and provides you with a 24-hour a day, 7 day a week connection, all for a fixed monthly fee which includes the cost of Internet calls. Speed – The fastest access speeds currently available through standard analogue modems are 56.6 Kbps for download (data from the Internet) and 33.6 Kbps upload (data to the Internet). ADSL will provide speeds of up to 2Mbits for download and a maximum 256 Kbps upload. And because you would be connected all day every day, you don’t have to wait while you establish a connection before browsing the web or downloading emails. The download speeds available will be 512Kbps, 1Mbps, or 2Mbps depending on the ADSL service chosen. Contention Ratio – When we refer to a contention ratio, we are referring to how many people would be connected to the network at any given time. For Dial-up access it would be modems hosted by us,
