A method of configuring an ADSL transceiver to operate according to parameters selected for an Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line, version 2 -ADSL2-compliant system, the method comprising: selecting a delay of one of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32 ms; wherein selecting delay = 1 ms in the ADSL2 compliant system having a selected minimum noise protection - INP_min = 0 Discrete Multi-tone-DMT- symbols produces a maximum downstream net data rate of 14656 kbps, wherein selecting delay =2 ms in the ADSL2 compliant system having selected one of INP_min = 0, 1⁄2, 1 and 2 DMT symbols produces maximum downstream net data rates of 14656, 7104, 3008, and 960, respectively, wherein a delay = 4 ms in the ADSL2 compliant system having one of INP_min = 0, 1⁄2, 1, 2, and 4 DMT symbols provides maximum downstream net data rates of 14656, 13632, 7104, 3008, and 960 kbps, respectively, wherein a delay = 8 ms in the ADSL2 compliant system having one of INP_min = 0, 1⁄2, 1, 2, 4 and 8 DMT symbols provides maximum downstream net data rates of 14656, 13632, 13632, 7104, 3008, and 960 kbps, respectively, wherein a delay = 16 ms in the ADSL2 compliant system having one of INP_min = 0, 1⁄2, 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16 DMT symbols provides maximum downstream net data rates of 8064, 7552, 7552, 7552, 3502, 1472, and 448 kbps, respectively, and wherein a delay = 32 ms in the ADSL2 compliant system having one of INP_min = 0, 1⁄2, 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16 DMT symbols provides maximum downstream net data rates of 3968, 3712, 3712, 3712, 3712, 1728, and 704 kbps, respectively; setting the minimum delay equal to the maximum delay; and selecting a minimum net data rate for downstream to be less than a particular maximum downstream net data rate that corresponds to a selected delay and a selected one of INP-min values. selecting a delay of one of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32 ms; wherein selecting delay = 1 ms in the ADSL2 compliant system having a selected minimum noise protection - INP_min = 0 Discrete Multi-tone-DMT- symbols produces a maximum downstream net data rate of 14656 kbps, wherein selecting delay =2 ms in the ADSL2 compliant system having selected one of INP_min = 0, 1⁄2, 1 and 2 DMT symbols produces maximum downstream net data rates of 14656, 7104, 3008, and 960, respectively, wherein a delay = 4 ms in the ADSL2 compliant system having one of INP_min = 0, 1⁄2, 1, 2, and 4 DMT symbols provides maximum downstream net data rates of 14656, 13632, 7104, 3008, and 960 kbps, respectively, wherein a delay = 8 ms in the ADSL2 compliant system having one of INP_min = 0, 1⁄2, 1, 2, 4 and 8 DMT symbols provides maximum downstream net data rates of 14656, 13632, 13632, 7104, 3008, and 960 kbps, respectively, wherein a delay = 16 ms in the ADSL2 compliant system having one of INP_min = 0, 1⁄2, 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16 DMT symbols provides maximum downstream net data rates of 8064, 7552, 7552, 7552, 3502, 1472, and 448 kbps, respectively, and wherein a delay = 32 ms in the ADSL2 compliant system having one of INP_min = 0, 1⁄2, 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16 DMT symbols provides maximum downstream net data rates of 3968, 3712, 3712, 3712, 3712, 1728, and 704 kbps, respectively; wherein selecting delay = 1 ms in the ADSL2 compliant system having a selected minimum noise protection - INP_min = 0 Discrete Multi-tone-DMT- symbols produces a maximum downstream net data rate of 14656 kbps, wherein selecting delay =2 ms in the ADSL2 compliant system having selected one of INP_min = 0, 1⁄2, 1 and 2 DMT symbols produces maximum downstream net data rates of 14656, 7104, 3008, and 960, respectively, wherein a delay = 4 ms in the ADSL2 compliant system having one of INP_min = 0, 1⁄2, 1, 2, and 4 DMT symbols provides maximum downstream net data rates of 14656, 13632, 7104, 3008, and 960 kbps, respectively, wherein a delay = 8 ms in the ADSL2 compliant system having one of INP_min = 0, 1⁄2, 1, 2, 4 and 8 DMT symbols provides maximum downstream net data rates of 14656, 13632, 13632, 7104, 3008, and 960 kbps, respectively, wherein a delay = 16 ms in the ADSL2 compliant system having one of INP_min = 0, 1⁄2, 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16 DMT symbols provides maximum downstream net data rates of 8064, 7552, 7552, 7552, 3502, 1472, and 448 kbps, respectively, and wherein a delay = 32 ms in the ADSL2 compliant system having one of INP_min = 0, 1⁄2, 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16 DMT symbols provides maximum downstream net data rates of 3968, 3712, 3712, 3712, 3712, 1728, and 704 kbps, respectively; setting the minimum delay equal to the maximum delay; and selecting a minimum net data rate for downstream to be less than a particular maximum downstream net data rate that corresponds to a selected delay and a selected one of INP-min values.