On 16 June 2014 10:59, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> writes:
May only be ADSL1 though.
Here in Tecoma (Dandenong Ranges), my ISP (Internode) provides ADSL2+. Is it a rural exchange which would limit it to ADSL1, or the 5 km line length?
I assume they're talking about attenuation, which is a property of the distance[0] between the DSLAM and your ADSL modem. I'm not sure if a line can support ADSL1 without also supporting (slow) ADSL2+ -- I'd expect that difference to be lack of support for ADSL2+ in the DSLAM.
This discussion would be better placed on whirlpool, which is relevant to the subject matter, rather than a regional Linux discussion list. I say that not to be pedantic, but because you'd get better quality responses, I think. Then again, the signal to noise there is pretty bad. Anyway. ADSL1 runs at a higher voltage than ADSL2, which enables it to reach a little bit further than ADSL2 on copper runs with a lot of attenuation.