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Old 19-12-2012, 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by gary View Post
The author states in the 7th paragraph that -

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“A” in an “ADSL” connection means “asynchronous”

That is incorrect. The A in ADSL stands for "Asymmetric" and refers to the fact that
more bandwidth is allocated to the downstream than the upstream.
This is his quote and I cannot see what you can see

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(For example, the “A” in an “ADSL” connection means “asymmetric” — which, in almost all cases, is optimized for downloads at the expense of upload speeds. Some services — typically for business — provide similar upload and download speed.)
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