Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line is also known as ADSL. It’s a form of digital communications that can support up to 6 Mbps for downloading. This digital local loop normally runs on copper cables providing larger bandwidthBandwidth is the amount of data that can be forced through a given channel. The greater the bandwidth, the more data able to travel at one time. The capacity of a line to carry signals. in one direction than the other. This enables upstream connection speeds of 128 Kbps and downstream connections of speeds up to 1.5 Mbps