I have a dialup connection at work. It's EXCRUCIATINGLY slow. But it's all I've been able to afford or justify until now.
I recently ordered the dialup connection upgrade to a DSL connection. Based on some flawed information gleaned from the sales rep when I first set up the dialup connection last year, I'd assumed that the phone company would need to come out and snake a new cable through the wall to execute the DSL connection. My assumption was incorrect. The "self-install" package arrived today. A little black modem-ish thing, two cables for connecting the modem-ish thing to the wall and computer, and a CD.
So what's the deal? This thing plugs into the same phone jack that provides the dialup connection, served by the same decades-old infrastructure.
How does DSL achieve greater speed over the same old phone system?
If it's so easy as all that, why do "traditional" dialup connections exist at all anymore?
(caveat: I haven't actually installed anything yet, so my comments on increased speed have no basis in experience)
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