On Mon 01 Aug 2016 16:48 +0000, Ivan Avery Frey via talk wrote:
On Mon, Aug 1, 2016, 10:58 Steve Petrie,
I do realize that the DSL modem provides a dial up "line" in parallel with the high-bandwidth DSL link.
However, there is still a difference between: 1. a telephone link over a twisted pair of physical copper wires, and 2. an emulation of a telephone link, over a DSL modem.
The DSL modem does not provide a dial up "line" in parallel with the DSL link. DSL operates over the same wires as the traditional phone service. One does need a small filter to prevent the DSL signals from interfering with the use of the telephone link.
Yes. Like Ivan states you will still have traditional phone service on the same exact lines as DSL and nothing needs to be changed. Except with modern VDSL2 you don't even need a filter to separate phone and DSL, though getting a POTS splitter can improve the DSL quality.