Is there a difference between DSL & Broadband?

DSL is one type of broadband. Broadband just means you are faster than a dial-up modem (actually 256kbps or higher)

So all DSL is broadband, but not all broadband is DSL.

Other popular type of broadband is Cable which is generally faster than DSL.

DSL is generally the slowest class of broadband. (typically 768kbps for a basic DSL line vs. a cable modem at around 5Mbps)

Broadband is a general term for a high speed connection. DSL is a type of broadband that runs over your phone line. The other type of broadband is cable, which obviously runs over your cable connection. There is also wireless broadband which runs over a cellular network like Sprint or Verizon but that is generally for portable computers.

DSL stands for Digital Subscriber Line, and is a type of broadband connection. You connect to it on a seperate line that your phone company put up (you plug it into a telephone jack, but it does not take up a telephone line like dial-up does). Internet connections are basically divided into dial-up (low-speed connection through a telephone line), and broadband (everything else). Along with DSL, other types of Broadband are cable (through the same line as your cable TV), Satellite (through a satellite dish), and higher-speed connections like T1 and T3.

Yes DSL is dedicated bandwidth to you and you only, Broadband is shared within a grid. also broadband and dsl have different ways they are connected. DSL uses phone line, broadband uses coaxial cable. and dsl is picky on how far you live away from the nearest substation as far as your speeds are concerned. BroadBand is not necessarily fatser, if you live close enough to a substaion, you could get 1.5 Mb/s download, but the sweet thing is the upload is usually much higher than BroadBand.

My experience with these have been the follow:

Broadband is like an broadening pipe "<", where the connection starts off slow (comparitively), but within milleseconds you've got a very large amount of data flowing. This is unsurpassable if your goal is downloading huge files like movies of such.

DSL is more of an evenly guarenteed flow "=" it begin connections essentially at full speed, but this speed is much less than that of Broadband...Though in most situations you are far from maxing out your broadband in this sense it doesn't matter. DSL is excellent for online gaming where "ping rate" is key.

All in all, just go with whichever is cheapest, any type of high speed will serve you well...except maybe satellite.

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) is a form of DSL, a data communications technology that enables faster data transmission over copper telephone lines than a conventional voiceband modem can provide. It does this by utilizing frequencies that are not used by a voice telephone call.[1] A splitter - or microfilter - allows a single telephone connection to be used for both ADSL service and voice calls at the same time. ADSL can generally only be distributed over short distances from the central office, typically less than 4 kilometres (2 mi),[2] but has been known to exceed 8 kilometres (5 mi) if the originally-laid wire gauge allows for farther distribution. DSL or xDSL, is a family of technologies that provides digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network. DSL originally stood for digital subscriber loop, although in recent years, the term digital subscriber line has been widely adopted as a more marketing-friendly term for ADSL, which is the most popular version of consumer-ready DSL. DSL can be used at the same time and on the same telephone line with regular telephone, as it uses high frequency, while regular telephone uses low frequency. Typically, the download speed of consumer DSL services ranges from 256 kilobits per second (kbit/s) to 24,000 kbit/s, depending on DSL technology, line conditions and service level implemented. Typically, upload speed is lower than download speed for Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) and equal to download speed for the rarer Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line (SDSL).

DSL still uses telephone lines.........broadband uses cable and is much much faster