[Gllug] Old type versus new ADSL?
Chris Bell
chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Sun Mar 30 11:13:37 UTC 2008
On Wed 19 Mar, Jason Clifford wrote:
>
>
> ADSL 2/2+ is currently only available from LLU providers. That will
> change in about 8 weeks when any ISP using BT wholesale services will be
> able to offer it where the exchange has been enabled for it. ADSL 2/2+
> offers headline speeds up to 24Mb/s however very few people will see
> anything like that. We're taking part in the current first stage trials
> on BT based ADSL 2/2+ at present and the highest speeds seen are about
> 21Mb/s. It's hard to give any worthwhile answer as to how well ADSL 2/2+
> will run as the first stage trial is too small.
>
> Jason
>
At present I can purchase analogue cards linking to ordinary PSTN/POTS
for use with Asterisk, but should I assume they will be obsolete when BT
provide their "21st Century Network" and start offering full digital? Will
a standard phone effectively move to VOIP?
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