Mike Raiford escreveu:
> 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.

I heard white noise in the phone with no filter and in the one next to 
the PC with a filter, I heard in the distance the very same connection 
"song" of old modems as it was connecting.  Once connected, no further 
noise.

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