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With High Speed Internet Access, you get more than just ultra-high-speed Internet connections, you get unparalleled performance, rock-solid reliability, world class customer service and affordability.

can be more than 18 times faster than a typical 56k modem connection.
allows both voice and data signals to travel across your telephone line at the same time.
always connected meaning you never have to wait for a connection or busy signals.
currently available in and around Bassett, Carroll, Meadow Grove, Osmond, Walthill and Winnebago. Please call 888-262-2661 to see if high-speed Internet is available in your location.
must have a modem provided by ABBt. Other modems will not work with this service.
priced as low as $35.95 per month after one-time service activation fee.

Compare the Speed

Package	Download Speed*	Upload Speed*	Compare to 56k modem**
256	256k	128k	>6x
1.0 Meg	1024k	512k	>40x
Data Only ***	1024k	512k	>24

*Maximum speed. Actual speed may vary.
**Assume average connect speed for 56k modem is 41k.
*** Data Only with no phone service, Call our
Customer Service Representatives

Understanding the Technology
DSL (Digital Subscriber Line)

Traditional phone service connects your home or small business to a telephone company office over copper wires that are wound around each other and called twisted pair. This phone service was created to let you exchange voice information with other phone users and the type of signal used for this kind of transmission is called an analog signal. An input device such as a phone set takes an acoustic signal (which is a natural analog signal) and converts it into an electrical equivalent in terms of volume (signal amplitude) and pitch (frequency of wave change). Since the telephone company's signaling is already set up for this analog wave transmission, it's easier for it to use that as the way to get information back and forth between your telephone and the telephone company. That's why your computer has to have a modem - so that it can demodulate the analog signal and turn its values into the string of 0 and 1 values that is called digital information.    Because analog transmission only uses a small portion of the available amount of information that could be transmitted over copper wires, the maximum amount of data that you can receive using ordinary modems is about 56 Kbps (thousands of bits per second). (With ISDN, which one might think of as a limited precursor to DSL, you can receive up to 128 Kbps.)     The ability of your computer to receive information is constrained by the fact that the telephone company filters information that arrives as digital data, puts it into analog form for your telephone line, and requires your modem to change it back into digital. In other words, the analog transmission between your home or business and the phone company is a bandwidth bottleneck.    Digital Subscriber Line is a technology that assumes digital data does not require change into analog form and back. Digital data is transmitted to your computer directly as digital data and this allows the phone company to use a much wider bandwidth for transmitting it to you. Meanwhile, if you choose, the signal can be separated so that some of the bandwidth is used to transmit an analog signal so that you can use your telephone and computer on the same line and at the same time.

Convenient - Always connected to the Internet. Tired of those other ISP's without enough phone lines? The "always connected" feature of Extreme Internet Access means you never have to wait for a connection OR busy signals.

Affordable - The value of Extreme Internet Access is apparent when comparing the cost of a second phone line plus Internet access to the cost of the high-speed, always on connection provided by DSL.

Equipment - Find out more about equipment for high speed interent.

Just one phone line. DSL technology connects you to the Internet using a special Modem that sends data over the same line your telephone uses today.

You can still receive phone calls while on the Internet. Since both the voice and data signals travel across your phone line at the same time, you can surf the Internet 24 hours a day and all your phone calls will still ring through. All the custom calling features you use will still be available on your phone and you will place and receive calls just as you normally do. To ensure a high-quality data signal and to remove DSL frequencies from your phone conversations, a low cost filter must be attached to every telephone device in your home.

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