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Re: [LUG] DIY router

 

On 29/04/16 19:35, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2016, Tremayne, Steve wrote:
>
>> (remember I'm on *A*DSL at the moment) ...
>
> Remember that "A" in ADSL means asymmetric. Almost all Digital
> Subscriber Lines are asymmetric including the FTTC connection I have.
>
> Acronyms get abused though, so VDSL, ADSL2, 2+, etc. Mostly for
> marketing purposes.
>
> I don't think it's possible to order the old (up to) 2Mb SDSL lines
> anymore either. (Symmetric)
>
> Even Virgin Media cable could technically be called ADSL - It's still
> an Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line... Although the term "subscriber
> line" may now be an anachronism to really mean telephone line.
>
> Marketing. Bah.
>
> Gordon
>
SDSL is a thing .. but it comes at a price  ..
http://www.emnet.co.uk/sdsl/sdsl_500 .. or at 2Mbs ..
http://www.emnet.co.uk/sdsl/sdsl_2000 .. not a whole lot of difference
in price.

It's a specialist market, like Tx leased lines, etc. that consumer's
don't typically want to pay market rates for...

MJE

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