On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 11:18:52 -0000, Mike M wrote:

The BT Home Hub is a combined adsl modem, router, wireless access point,
internet phone (VOIP) and BT's digital TV service/ IPTV (not sure whether
that it the correct term to describe BT Vision).

IPTV is the generic term for Television delivered over phone lines; using
VDSL, I believe. In the U.S., Qwest was doing it, but I think they stopped.
AT&T sells IPTV as "Uverse". Actually, I think "Uverse" is a "Triple Play"
product: Internet, telephone, and television. AT&T calls their modem device
a, "residential gateway". However, I am not close enough to the VRAD (the
VDSL DSLAM) to get it, so I only have ADSL, connecting to a DSLAM over 9,156
feet out. AAH's reference to an internal modem wasn't clear to me; I thought
he meant the DSL modem was an internal device.

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Norman
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