Since a couple of years there is an innovative system for communication and data transfer: DSL. With DSL, your "old-fahsioned" phone line is transformed into a super fast Internet connection.

ADSL is just one member of the DSL family and one of the fastest at that. Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) or asymmetric digital connection is a technologythat changes the traditional copper phonelines into a high-speed connection for telephone traffic and for high-speed sending and receiving of data traffic. The connection is split up in a, so called, upstream channel and a downstream channel. Asymetric means that there will most lickely be more speed available for receiving data (dowsnstream) than for sending data (upstream). The idea behind this is that most Internet users receive more data then sending they are it. Both at the users premises as in the central of KPn a modem will be placed.

At the users premises there will also have to be a splitter to seperate data and other traffic. The biggest advantage of this being that you will still have a functioning telephone line, even when sending data. This also means that you have a permanent connection to the Internet without any telephone charges.

ADSL biedt een prive en veilig kanaal voor communicatie tussen u en de service provider. Uw data gaat over uw eigen lijn, in tegenstelling tot kabel telefoon en modem diensten waar de lijn wordt gedeeld met anderen. Omdat het een eigen lijn is, wordt de snelheid niet beïnvloed door andere gebruikers. Met een kabelmodem wordt de verbinding trager naarmate er meer gebruikers op dezelfde kabel zitten.