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DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) is an always-on internet connection that normally terminates in a socket on your wall, one that looks much like a phone socket. In the US, the socket is exactly a phone socket, and, for the popular residential DSL, (ADSL), the same housewiring does indeed carry both phone and data.

DSL is billed on a monthly basis, usually for a fixed price, and for the majority of providers it includes unlimited usage. In other words, whether you use it for email once a day, or you are a net addict and use it constantly, your bill is always the same.

Once you have a DSL line, you can use all the resources of the internet in the same way as you did from a regular modem and a dial-up account. The difference is now you can use them 24 hours a day with no connection delay, and usually (although not always) without a 'username' and 'password'. You need not worry about busy signals or any connection/disconnection process.

The key advantage of DSL over a dial-up modem is speed. DSL is from several to dozens of times faster than a modem connection. A complex web page that could take up to a minute to finish loading at 56K can appear in just seconds over DSL.

Connection speed, reliability, and the 'always-on' nature of DSL are the main reasons it is so popular. For small businesses, DSL is also a great way to save money compared to pay per minute ISDN service, or expensive T1 lines.

JCS High Speed DSL can usally be activated on site 3 buisness days from account setup.

You should be able to get DSL service provided by JCS DSL assuming your lines support it, and soon from CLECs once their line sharing agreements are in place in most apartment buildings. Whether you can get DSL that needs to be run over a separate copper pair depends on whether the apartment building management will allow a new copper pair to be installed into the phone box along with the wiring up to your apartment. To be sure we can test the line from our office. To check call 209-984-0411 or 209-536-9190