What is Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)?

Question

The detail and the definition

Answer 1

DSL is a hetrodyne (piggy-backed, altered frequency) signal that is superimposed over your analog telephone voice signal.

This your phone lines carry two signals at once. A DSL packet carrier (a WAN or networ that uses relay packets for data transfer) and a telelphone talk signal.

You put a filter between your phone and the line to remove the DSL signal.

Your analog telelphone conversations have no interference with the DSL transmission.

DSL needs to be close to the telephone company relay station to work or you need a booster card at your location.

Once DSL is in place you can connect to the internet via a special modem tuned to the DSL carrier for your provider and set to the URL of your providers website.

As with dial up services, your provider then assigns you a dedicated IP number for your web work.

DSL allows for 24/7/365 internet with no need to dial up, connect, handshake,

Answer 2

Well your subscribe to a digital line to access the internet......your computer hooks up to a DSL modem (which converts your digital signal into analog signal)....the analog signal is then sent through your telephone access line to the PSTN (Public Swiched Telephone Network) where it is converted back to digital...hope that helps

Answer 3

The ability from newer technology to send a digital signal (that computers read) over a telephone line that uses analog signals all at that same time and at high speed.