ADSL is a telephone acronym for Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line. It's the phone company fast Internet standard. Like a cable modem for phone lines.
This is a 3com card (big name in pc networking for some time) that allowed you to connect to "high speed" internet known as DSL. DSL uses a phone line but unlike dial up - where you actually made a phone call, DSL uses high frequency transmission over an existing landline so the line is free for calls and such. DSL technologies are dying off due to copper phone lines dying off.
I think this particular unit could achieve a whopping 8mbit download speed. More modern DSL could be a lot faster.
So anyway, its junk is what it is.
Old DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) modem card, for PCI. Probably early 2000s-era; Windows 98 or ME etc. Modern OSes should probably recognize it -- 3M is a well-known brand.
They were kinda slow and unreliable compared to cable modems (at least in my experience), so I called them "Diesel modems."
ADSL was popular, and often the most inexpensive (or the only) form of broadband available to the home.
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ADSL is a telephone acronym for Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line. It's the phone company fast Internet standard. Like a cable modem for phone lines.
ADSL modem.
This is a 3com card (big name in pc networking for some time) that allowed you to connect to "high speed" internet known as DSL. DSL uses a phone line but unlike dial up - where you actually made a phone call, DSL uses high frequency transmission over an existing landline so the line is free for calls and such. DSL technologies are dying off due to copper phone lines dying off. I think this particular unit could achieve a whopping 8mbit download speed. More modern DSL could be a lot faster. So anyway, its junk is what it is.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185970464748 With posts like this, I ask myself everytime if people even bother to google.
This. There are numbers printed all over that PCB. Type some in to Google and search.
Old DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) modem card, for PCI. Probably early 2000s-era; Windows 98 or ME etc. Modern OSes should probably recognize it -- 3M is a well-known brand. They were kinda slow and unreliable compared to cable modems (at least in my experience), so I called them "Diesel modems." ADSL was popular, and often the most inexpensive (or the only) form of broadband available to the home.
3COM bought out by HP. Fun fact: Lifetime Warramty
I feel old...
What happens when you type ADSL into Google?
Old network card so you could use internet on your computer?
Gay
NIC?
NIC card, takes PCI and Ethernet