On 4/27/2010 12:59 PM, nemesis wrote:
> Darren New escreveu:
>> nemesis wrote:
>>> BTW, don't you guys find it funny that ADSL is "dial-up" too?
>>
>> Not really. It's built into the line card, so you're not actually
>> dialing anything. You're just using the same wires you would be
>> dialing on.
>
> really? I used to connect without a line filter in my other telephone
> across the room and, thus, if you happened to pick up the nearby phone
> while it was connecting, you would listen to a bit of that "folkloric"
> well-known old-modem dialing-up tune.
>

probably hearing some artifacts from the out-of-band signaling the ADSL 
modem is doing. Which is why you need the filter ;) I remember back when 
I had ADSL forgetting a filter on a phone jack, and picking up that 
phone. It was more like I had a bad connection than anything, though.

-- 
~Mike

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