DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) technology is common in bringing broadband info to residential and small businesses over copper telephone lines. It comes with many flavors like ADSL and SDSL. The most common used is ADSL and ADSL2+ in most countries. ADSL is able to offer speeds of up to 8Mbps downstream and 448 Kbps upstream.
The Latest ADSL2+ is able to push
speeds of up to 24Mbps downloads and 1.4Mbps uploads. Technically, ADSL2+M is
the common name for the ADSL2+ and is to push 24Mbps UP and 3.3Mbps DOWN