A relative has a farm. His phone service comes in on 700 yards of
> ordinary telephone cable buried along his driveway. Last week he got
> Bellsouth DSL. It comes in on the same conductors as before, but I've
> seen speeds fifty times faster than dialup.
> I thought 56K was the fastest speed possible with conventional
> telephone cable. How can DSL be so much faster with the same old > cable?
How can a Porshe be so much faster than a Volkswagon on the same road?