Re: gEDA-user: Building the PCB+GL branch [WAS: Re: Open GL survey (for PCB)]

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 6, 2009, at 1:14 PM, David C. Kerber wrote:
>>>> And if I had a nickel for every time I've heard people, even
>>>> knowledgeable people, incorrectly use the term "broadband" to mean
>>>> "high-speed Internet connection" (when most such
>> connections are, in
>>>> fact, baseband)..
>>>
>>> They are?  DSL certainly isn't (the baseband there is the
>> audio range,
>>> which DSL specifically avoids) and,
>>
>>    My definition of "broadband" is "multiple communication
>> channels sharing bandwidth on the same medium", which does
>> not, IMO, describe DSL.  What is yours?
>
> Well, a DSL line has voice and data bands on the same wire,  
> separated by frequency division just like the channels on cable.   
> How is that fundamentally different?

   It's not.  My last two DSL circuits had no voice capability.  And  
for the past 10-15 years or so, the "last mile" of most T1 data  
circuits have been delivered via a form of DSL, and they typically  
have no voice support either.

            -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL




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