>> Robert Anders>>> Do you more reliably get the higher bandwidth with SDSL than with >>> ADSL?
>>> For example, is the CIR higher with SDSL?
>>> We are a very small business using VoIP and our connection is
>>> ADSL. People have problems hearing us but not the other way around.
>>> We were thinking of switching from ADSL over to SDSL, to see if that >>> helps.
>>> Robert Anderson
>> ADSL is asymmetrical
> *not*necessarily*
>> SDSL is symetrical
> *not*necessarily*
> As "commonly deployed", SDSL has same speed up and down, and ADSL has
> mis-matched (almost invariably higher in the 'down' direction) speeds.
> However, I have had "symmetric rate" ADSL, and "Asymmetric rate" SDSL,
> service, at various times, from various providers. Not terribly
> common, but such services do/did exist. :)
Can you elaborate? I thought the 'A' in ADSL and the 'S' in SDSL stood for asymmetrical and symmetrical respectively. What you're describing seems to negate that doesn't it? What am I missing?