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An introduction to Digital Subscriber Lines, the affordable, easy-to-install, and increasingly popular way to establish lightning-quick Internet access. David Angell prepares large and small organization, telecommuters, and IT professionals to take advantage of this new technology.

Enjoying elaborate, content-rich Web sites greatly depends upon pages' load time--including all the special plug-ins visitors are required to download to enhance the presentation with audio and video. Digital Subscriber Lines (DSLs), once used exclusively by telephone companies and corporations to deliver high-speed voice and computer data over telephone lines, are readily available for consumer Internet use, promising high-speed transmission for the masses. If you are thinking of converting to one of the Internet's other conduits, DSL for Dummies explains the low-level technical aspects of the heir apparent to analog modems.

Author David Angell broadly explains the many types of DSL, their general properties, and their installation into your home, office, or network. In a section dedicated to classifying the variety of DSL flavors, Angell enlists the use of charts to quantify data exchange averages. He also provides the reader with a sense of the way the length of the telephone line affects the degradation of signal transmission quality. In addition, he includes helpful, platform-specific configuration tips for setting up your DSL connection as well as layouts for local area network (LAN) integration.

Filled with a plethora of technical descriptions on DSL and its related components, DSL for Dummies gives novice and intermediate users--and those interested in migrating to DSL--all the introductory information they will need to understand its benefits and pitfalls. --Ryan Kuykendall