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- From: vclant12@interserv.com
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: New modem with 320kbps to 6mbps over normal phone lines!!!
- Date: 12 Jan 1996 19:16:41 GMT
- Organization: InterServ News Service
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- > What's important is not whether or not it runs over regular phone
- > LINES, but whether or not it runs over regular analog residential phone
- > switching equipment (it doesn't). T1 lines have been availible for some
- > time now, they transfer data at about 1.5mbps over what could be consider
- > a "regular phone line", but those lines are set up quite differently, and
- > cost a LOT more then what you've got running into your home. Unforutnatly
- > the switching equipment in use today limits modems to an absolute
- > theoretical maximum of 64kbps, and there's no chance that we'll ever get
- > too close to that max. For higher speeds you'll have to look either to
- > some form of digital connection (of which there are many), or new
- > switching equipment. As far as modems go, I seriously doubt we'll see
- > anything higher then 33.6 for at least another year and a half to two
- > years.
-
- > Anthony
-
- with the latest increase in ISDN rates by PacBell, and not much of a difference
- when comparing 33 and 64k, the next leap forward might come from cable companies
- especially considering the approaching deregulation (much to the dislike of
- monopolies that local phone companies enjoyed for so long). I am using a partial
- T1 for WWW and it is still slow at times, although I must admit many times due
- to bottleneck at remote servers.
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- vc_lant
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