Future ADSL

DSL providers are working on increasing the performance of their lines to customers. Cable providers are currently increasing speeds as quickly as they can and the DSL providers are beginning to plan for their infrastructure improvements that will allow them to do the same in the coming years. ADSL2 will increase the maximum performance of an ADSL line from 8Mbps to 12Mbps and will provide this signal over a longer distance with a much more reliable signal. That signal also will travel over phone lines that currently cannot carry standard ADSL. ADSL2 will be later followed by ADSL2+, an enhancement that will provide up to 24Mbps performance. This is the speed that is required to deliver high quality video over a broadband connection. Unfortunately, that speed is only going to be seen if you are less than 1000 meters from the DSLAM that originates your ADSL2+ line.

We can anticipate these changes to begin to happen potentially by late 2006 and on. This link provides a chart of bandwidth and distance limits of various DSL.

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