> My son and grandson have gone ga-ga over our DSL connection and how well it works with certain computer games. So they decided that they need a connection like that. A few phone calls found the following information:
>
> 1. They are about 100 yards from where they can get DSL.
> 2. DSL is actually transmitted over telephone lines, and they have a telephone.
> 3. They can get a "business" DSL for about $80 a month, but the "residential" DSL, at about $35 a month, is unavailable.
>
> I am somewhat electronically challenged, but that seems like someone is lying to them in an effort to make an extra $45 a month.
> Howard

Yes, it's carried by telephone lines, but your exchange needs to be DSL-enabled. It's possible that if they were 100 yds down the road, they would by attached to a different exchange, so that makes a certain amout of sense.

Withoiut knowing what the difference is between business and residential DSL, that seems to make less sense. I'd assume that business DSL is a wider bandwidth, so there should be no reason why they couldn't throttle that back...

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