This essay will opinionate the difference between standard telephone lines and digital telephone lines. My favor in this subject would be digital, offering faster send/receive rates. Basically, computers operate with digital signals. Which is then sent through a modem to convert the data into an analog signal, which is passed through POTS or plain old telephone system. Finally, there is another modem at the receiving end, converting the analog data back into its digital form to be processed by the computer at the receiving end.
             The telephone was originally designed to carry voice messages, also called analog signals. The lines are now being occupied to send digital data. Reason being, you can send and receive data with anyone in the world with a computer and telephone service, without a network. But the downfall, speed, the limit for transmission speeds over analog lines is only around .005 as fast as a 10Base-T Ethernet network. The effect it had on telephone companies across the world was, to offer digital lines specifically designed for data communications. Most people still have analog telephone lines in their homes and businesses.
             Digital telephone lines can offer about 200 times as fast a transfer rate than a 56 Kbps (kilobytes per a second) modem, equaling to be 10 Mbps (Megabytes per a second).
             The telephone companies recognized the problem several years ago and started the long process of converting the analog system into a digital scheme. Bulky data channels that are used to connect major geographical regions are already digital. The lines that run below or above the surface of most streets in a city or town are still analog. Therefore making these systems extremely confusing, especially while transmitting data trough a modem. After this transition finishes taking place it will affect most users in these three simple ways: Requiring a different phone, a digital one that can translate your voice into bits rather than a...