DSL in America

The DSL, or digital line subscriber Internet available to you is a relativley old technology. It was popularized right after the spread of dial up Internet. But it has stood up pretty well. DSL has stood the test of time pretty well with advances in the technology allowing the speeds available to Internet customers to increase over time.

Most consumers can get high speed DSL Internet where they live. Often DSL Internet uses a mix of fiber optic cables and copper cables. More and more Internet providers are relying on high speed fiber optic cable to augment DSL lines.

DSL Internet in your area is probably provided by companies that started out as telephone companies like AT&T, CenturyLink, and Frontier as well as the king of dial-up Internet: Earthlink.

DSL developed after it was figured out that high speed Internet connections could be delivered using the same lines already coming into the majority of homes in America. Thats right, now they know that high-speed DSL Internet is available to zip codes all across America using phone lines! That is why many of the DSL Internet providers got their start as telephone companies. Actually many of them can trace their heritage back to Alexander Graham Bell.