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• GLOSSARY of Internet Terms
  
  
  DSL
  
  Digital Subscriber Line
  
  a telecommunications line that provides a fast, permanent connection to the Internet over standard telephone wire without interrupting normal telephone service. Special hardware attached at both ends of the line allows data to transmit at a far greater speed than standard telephone wiring can. DSL speeds, on the average, run at about 600kbps for downstream and 128kbps for upstream.

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