And that s on a good day. Most people in the technology industry don t understand tech-speak either. Of course not. The following definitions aren t organized in any particular order well, unless you consider writing down the first thing that pops into your head a form of organization. The capacity of a system to transfer information.
Technicians measure bandwidth in bits per second.
In practice, a very expensive data system, generally available just to city-folk that usually delivers truly broadband performance only when nobody is using it. In theory, DSL technology is designed to simplify the delivery of broadband services for both customer and service provider. In practice, DSL is about as simple as translating the Dead Sea Scrolls into Mandarin. The actual electronic gizmo that enables the concentration of DSL services and provides for the interface between DSL and the public network. In simpler terms, for DSL customers these are the things they think never work the way they re supposed to.