1.   America Online has its own high-speed offering in the form of deals with telephone companies, called AOL Plus, which also uses DSL technology over standard phone lines.

2.   An Illinois company said it will soon start selling modems that will double the speed at which computers can access the Internet over standard phone lines.

3.   And there probably will always be a market for the standard phone.

4.   ADSL modems can download millions of data bits per second over a standard phone line.

5.   Also, DSL works only over standard copper phone wires that run all the way back to the central office.

6.   But unlike the base stations of standard cordless phones, this one connects to a Windows PC via a USB cable.

7.   Cellular car phones and two-way radio car service conversations were constant unwanted companions with the standard cordless phones.

8.   DSL is a technology that allows telephone companies to provide high-speed Internet service over standard copper phone lines.

9.   DSL works by adding electronics to standard copper phone lines to allow for Internet access at megabit-per-second speeds.

10.   Either box is linked to a television set and connected to the telephone world through a separate cable that plugs into a standard phone jack.