No, it's not a lie, per say. A DSL modem demodulates an analog signal
from the wire into digital information. It also takes digital
information and modulates it into an analog signal and put onto the
wire. This is roughly the same as how a dialup modem works.
It also performs routing/bridging at a higher layer on the OSI chart.
Regardless, the signal normally flows across the POTS line as an
analog signal.
HTH
On Mon, 17 May 2004 09:25:26 -0700, Ken Barber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> So... the phrase DIGITAL Subsciber Line is a lie? It's not
> actually digital?
>
> Ken
>
>
> On Sunday 16 May 2004 23:19, Christopher Bruce Allen wrote:
> > > Sometime On Sunday 16 May, someone wrote:
> > > What is this all about? I believe my DSL box
> > > ("modem" is the wrong word for it, 'coz a modem
> > > is by definition a device that converts digtal
> > > to analog and back, and the phone line is
> > > presumably already digital)
> >
> > Your home is wired with a digital PBX unit?
> > http://www.konexx.com/mobile_konnector.htm
> >
> > If it is, ordinary phones will not work when
> > plugged into your phone jacks, unless you use
> > something like the above-linked analogulator
> > in-between the phone and the jack. Ditto for
> > your DSL modem (modulator/demodulator; yes,
> > modem is the right term).
> >
> >
> > -Chris
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