On Mon, 01 May 2006 13:21:12 +0100, Laurence Payne
lpayneNOSPAM@dslDOTpipexDOTcom wrote:

On Mon, 01 May 2006 12:07:58 +0100, Nick Gorham
wrote:

That's not being picky. It's a vital factor. The service available
to a user is limited to what will go down an analogue connection. No
matter if that connection is only a few inches long, it's still a
bottleneck.

But to continue being picky, the pairs in a length of CAT5 don't know or
care if the signal they carry is being called analog or digital, its
still just a voltage that varies with time. And the "analog" cable from
the phone co distribution box here carries analog voice, and used to
carry digital ISDN, and now carries both analog voice and digital ADSL
at the same time. So what is it, analog or digital, or maybe it doesn't
matter.


We're talking about POTS aren't we? It's analogue.

At the domestic master socket, yes, but the *cable* isn't necessarily
the limitation, and nowadays is often also delivering up to an 8Mb/sec
ADSL digital signal. Which brings us neatly back on topic.

--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

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