Re: Increasing the speed of dial-up to that of cable -- possible?

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From: Sjouke Burry
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:37

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Radium wrote:
> On Aug 13, 6:11 pm, kony <s...@spam.com> wrote:
> 
>> The answer is no, it can't.  Plain old twisted pair bell
>> wire cannot retain the analog signal at the sufficiently
>> high frequencies necessary to come anywhere near ISDN, ADSL,
>> let alone *cable* broadband speeds.
> 
> Why can't telephone wires carry those high frequencies?
> 
My phone wires dating back to about 1930, carry ADSL
, testing with > http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
from the netherlands to WASHINGTON DC
gives 1318 kbps download, 216 kbps upload.
Not bad for those OLD wires....

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