What Is an ASP File? Files created with Active Server Pages have the extension .ASP. This story is an example; take a look at the address above. With ASP files, you can activate your Web site using any combination of HTML, scripting such as JavaScript or Visual Basic?

Is It Hard to Use? I don't know about you, but whenever people start talking about doing things on the server, I start to get nervous. I think a lot about threading issues, synchronization, and generally stuff without a user interface. I assume it's going to be hard to do. Well, using ASP is about as easy as anything I've come across in years.

Aw, Mom. Not Another Object Model! I really hate doing this to you, but I'm going to have to use that overused and overcomplex term "object model" again. Here's how it works. When a browser requests an ASP file from your Web server, your Web server calls Active Server Pages to read through the ASP file, executing any of the commands contained within and sending the resulting HTML page to the browser.

DSL or xDSL, is a family of technologies that provide digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network. DSL originally stood for Digital Subscriber Loop, although in recent years, many have adopted Digital Subscriber Line as a more marketing-friendly term for the most popular version of DSL, ADSL over UNE. Typically, the download speed of DSL ranges from 128 kilobits per second (kbit/s) to 24,000 kbit/s depending on DSL technology and service level implemented. Upload speed is lower than download speed for Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) and equal to download speed for Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line (SDSL).

United States telephone companies started promoting DSL when cable television companies began marketing broadband Internet access and VoIP telephony. Until this point, DSL service had primarily been provided over a dedicated "dry loop". When the FCC required ILECs to lease lines to DSL providers such as Earthlink, however, a move to shared-line DSL (also known as DSL over UNE) was made to avoid the need for custom installations. With DSL over UNE, an ordinary twisted-pair telephone line is connected to both a POTS-splitter, to provide voice services, and a DSLAM, to provide data services. An inline low-pass filter (sometimes known as a microfilter) keeps the data signal from being audible when the voice circuit is used. When the low-pass filter is not used, an audible humming noise can be heard on the phone. In addition to that, internet speed will appear to slow down a lot.