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Taavi Burns wrote:

>DSL on the other hand has a maximum physical transfer rate of 8Mbps
>per copper loop.  I do not know if that includes upstream
>on adsl (it would definitely include it for sdsl, for obvious
>reasons).  People then only share the bandwidth from the wire
>centre, which is--as others have alluded--probably some huge ATM,
>shared out between way more than 30 people.  Hence, the statistical
>probability that the trunk line will be saturated is lower.
>
>  
>
You are only referring to ADSL, not DSL. The 8Mbps is download only, 
although that's not a very practical limit (more like 6 or 7).

VDSL, another form of DSL, has a rate of just under 30Mbps (26 maybe??), 
if my bad memory recalls correctly.

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