Dial-up and DSL are the only internet types that require a direct phone line to the home, but you'll only need landline ...

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DSL stands for Digital Subscriber Line, and it’s essentially internet over copper. Up until the mid-1990s, many people accessed the internet by using modems of various baud rates, myself included.

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A device used to connect a single computer or a network to a telephone company digital subscriber line (DSL) service for Internet access. DSL is faster than analog dial-up but significantly slower ...