From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Apr 25 13:34:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-multimedia Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA08045 for multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 13:34:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.think.com (Mail1.Think.COM [131.239.33.245]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA08035 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 13:34:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Early-Bird-1.Think.COM by mail.think.com; Thu, 25 Apr 96 16:34:35 -0400 Received: from compound.Think.COM (fergus-27.dialup.cfa.org) by Early-Bird.Think.COM; Thu, 25 Apr 96 16:34:29 EDT Received: (from alk@localhost) by compound.Think.COM (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA02906; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 16:34:23 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 16:34:23 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199604252134.QAA02906@compound.Think.COM> From: Tony Kimball To: jonas@mcs.com Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: (jonas@mcs.com) Subject: Re: ADSL/HDSL Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 12:44:51 -0500 (CDT) From: "Lars Jonas Olsson" After checking http://www.pairgain.com I found many references to HDSL but none to ADSL. Would I use ADSL or HDSL modems? Is anyone on this list using this kind of setup? Jonas HDSL/ADSL/SDSL are different terms for the same technology. For the most part ADSL chipsets will support SDSL/HDSL (but not the AT&T CAP chipset now used by WilTell). I believe the PairGain EtherModems are probably your best bet for cheap SDSL -- I do not believe they offer adaptive or tunable assymetry, a limitation probably motivated by simplicity of design and target market, but the last I heard they were not available until June, and then MSRP is ~$1000 per unit, of which you will need two. They probably will not interoperate with any other xDSL products, now or ever, but I doubt that you would care.