whats the differerence between DSL and dial-up?

Answer 1

With DSL you will get this answer today but with dial-up you will get it next week.

Answer 2

Dial-up runs by using a telephone line, and has very limited velocity. that is talked approximately as dial-up because of the fact the relationship extremely dials a telephone variety to connect with the internet, DSL is a digital subscriber link which means you get a right away and dedicated link for the internet. Dial-up acceptable velocity is 56k, divide that by technique of 7 on your acceptable get carry of velocity style of. DSL can variety from low 128k as much as approximately 10m presently(10000k), divide those by technique of 7 for the properly known get carry of velocity in line with 2d additionally. Dial up demands a modem extraordinarily for the interest, DSL additionally needed a modem yet might commonly comprise the provider.

Answer 3

Speed and money. 1st - A lot of games of solitaire! I live in a rural area where DSL isn't an option. I used to just sit and stare at the screen while pages load. Now I play levels of various games in the middle.

Also, I work at a job where the pay is lower than I could get elsewhere, but I also get unlimited access to a DSL line.
I could get a satellite high-speed link for about $80 a month, but it'd only be one way. Since I also upload a lot of hi res photo files, that wouldn't help too much. Sigh!

You gotta decide what your computer use priorities are. You can't expect to get much out of streaming video, like youtube or replays of TV shows, etc. on dial-up. Also, the automatic updates from Microsoft can really slow your machine down to a crawl. Googleearth, which is seriously cool if you do any traveling around, doesn't have as good a resolution or speed on dial-up, but is workable. (It's also good for the geocaching sport.) IF you plan to do much buying on eBay, don't expect to win many last minute bidding wars; dial-up is just too slow to get the job done.

On the otherhand, while you should have good security under any circumstances (firewall, anti-virus, anti-spam, etc.), when you're connected 24/7 your machine is REALLY going to be open to access from unsavory places. I recently switched from McAfee and Norton to Zone Alarm (inexpensive) plus AdAware (free). ZA was much higher rated and I've used the free version for quite awhile, successfully. Having 3 security systems is supposed to be better, but they're getting now so that when you try an install they register the presence of the other systems and say they're incompatible. In the past month, on dial-up mind you, with maybe 3-4 hours connection a day, the ZA firewall's blocked over 42,000 attempted intrusions. And everytime I scan with AdAware it picks up 3-5 "critical objects" that it deletes, that ZA doesnt' catch. And I'm careful what sites I go to and how I manage my email. If you're adventerous and go "pub crawling" through the internet, you'll pick up a lot more than that. Being faced with an entire disk reformat is NO fun. (I've seen it happen too other folks too many times to want to go there!) And your friends REALLY get sore if you always spread viruses to them. So, keep in mind the increased vigilence and cost of security software if you go the DSL route.

Dial-up works fine for email and normal web page viewing, if you're on a tight budget and have a little patience.

Still, IF DSL fees won't cause major hurts in your budget and you don't have a more important use for the money, it's worth it. IMHO There's getting to be so many fun things to do online that just go better with a faster connection. Shoot, even DSL isn't that fast anymore compared to what else is out there. (Yes, I'm green with envy over other folks good luck!)

Answer 4

DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) comes in a couple different flavors. Most end users have what is called ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line), which can transmit up to 6 Mb/sec to your computer, and up to about 1.5 Mb/sec from your computer. SDSL (Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line) can supply about a 1.5 Mb/sec pipe to and from your computer. Both services are limited in range from your local phone company switching office, with a max of about 12,000 feet. Your service will deteriorate near the end of that limitation, and not all areas can get DSL service.

DSL is basically an invisible network connection to your provider. When you power on your computer, you're online. Period. No dialing up, no busy signals, incredible speed. All the bandwidth you purchase is yours, unlike cable, where you end up sharing with your neighbors on a token ring network. This has major advantages when running a Unreal Tournament server. Prices for DSL vary and are changing all the time, but generally you're going to pay about $50-$80 a month, plus any equipment and setup fees your provider requires. The speed difference you'll see, though, is staggering.

Dial-up access is a form of Internet access through which the client uses a modem connected to a computer and a telephone line to dial into an Internet service provider's (ISP) node to establish a modem-to-modem link, which is then routed to the Internet.

Dial-up requires no additional infrastructure on top of the telephone network. As telephone points are available throughout the world, dial-up remains useful to travellers. Dial-up is usually the only choice available for most rural or remote areas where getting a broadband connection is impossible due to low population and demand. Sometimes dial-up access may also be an alternative to people who have limited budgets as it is offered for free by some.
Dial-up requires time to establish a telephone connection (approximately several seconds, depending on the location) and perform handshaking before data transfers can take place. In locales with telephone connection charges, each connection incurs an incremental cost. If calls are time-charged, the duration of the connection incurs costs.

Dial-up access is a transient connection, because either the user or the ISP terminates the connection. Internet service providers will often set a limit on connection durations to prevent hogging of access, and will disconnect the user — requiring reconnection and the costs and delays associated with that.

Modern dial-up modems typically have a maximum theoretical speed of 56 kbit/s (using the V.92 protocol), although in most cases only up to 53 kbit/s is possible due to overhead and, in the United States, FCC regulation. These speeds are currently considered the maximum possible; in many cases transfer speeds will be lower, averaging anywhere between 33-43 kbit/s. Factors such as phone line noise and conditions, as well as the quality of the modem itself, play a large part in determining connection speeds.

But to put it simply dial-up is slow and dsl is fast. Enjoy!!

Answer 5

Dial up uses voice call technology to send and receive signals from your modem to your telephone line. Due to this you can't make or receive phone calls, as your line is engaged. DSL uses the bandwidth of your line that is Not used during voice calls which frees up your phone to be able to make and receive calls. Also due to the bandwidth that DSL uses being a lot larger than the normal phone bandwidth, (voice calls use about a quarter the space of the phone line) the speed is faster as more data can be sent and received down the line at any time.

Answer 6

DSL is an always "on" connection through a direct connection, much like a T1 or cable connection. Dial up goes through a regular modem. DSL is many times faster than dial up.

Answer 7

Dial-up pertains to a telephone connection in a system of many lines shared by many users. A dial-up connection is established and maintained for a limited time duration.

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) is a very high-speed connection that uses the same wires as a regular telephone line.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/dsl.htm

Answer 8

the quick answer, the world......

DSL will be so much faster then dial-up. if you have to pick between the 2. TAKE DSL!

Answer 9

dialup is through telephone line via modem. it is analog converted.

DSL is the Digital Subscriber Line. This is digital one and is uniterrupted.

Answer 10

speed for down loads and web pages and every thing else