Difference between: Broadband and DSL (if there is a difference)

Question

We are getting DSL. What is the difference?

What one is faster?????????????

Answer 1

DSL and Broadband are not different, in fact DSL is a subset of Broadand.  Broadband is a term commonly used to describe all high speed internet connections, although that is not technically correct, that is how it is most often used currently.  So DSL is a form of Broadband, as is Cable and some others.  

Answer 2

DSL is a kind of broadband, that is, it's faster (broader) than dial-up.  Cable is another broadband, and cell-phone wireless might be also.

Hope that helps.

Answer 3

Broadband Internet access, often shortened to just broadband, is high-speed Internet access—typically contrasted with dial-up access over a modem.

Dial-up modems are generally only capable of a maximum bitrate of 56 kbit/s (kilobits per second) and require the full use of a telephone line—whereas broadband technologies supply at least double this speed and generally without disrupting telephone use. (Though the opposite word for broadband is not dial up, it is used here for practical understanding purposes only.)

Although various minimum speeds have been used in definitions of broadband, ranging up from 64 kbit/s up to 1.0 Mbit/s, the 2006 OECD report [1] is typical in counting only download speeds equal to or faster than 256 kbit/s as broadband, and the US FCC currently defines broadband as anything above 768 kbit/s [2] [3]

Speeds are defined in terms of maximum download because several common consumer broadband technologies such as ADSL are "asymmetric"—supporting much slower maximum upload speeds than download.

read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_I...

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DSL or xDSL, is a family of technologies that provide digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network. DSL originally stood for digital subscriber loop, although in recent years, the term digital subscriber line has been widely adopted as a more marketing-friendly term for ADSL, which is the most popular version of consumer-ready DSL. DSL uses high frequency, while regular telephone uses low frequency on the same telephone line.

Typically, the download speed of consumer DSL services ranges from 256 kilobits per second (kbit/s) to 24,000 kbit/s, depending on DSL technology, line conditions and service level implemented. Typically, upload speed is lower than download speed for Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) and equal to download speed for the rarer Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line (SDSL).

rad more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSL