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- From: dhaire@gate.net (doug haire)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Is 33.6 only available for USR?
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 10:55:37 -0500
- Organization: CyberGate, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4eathp$1jp4@seminole.gate.net>
- References: <4dd14b$odp@grid.direct.ca> <4ddchf$c4i@shellx.best.com> <30FA9B32.4862@fishnet.net> <4dh7j3$81i@shellx.best.com> <30FCE339.36B9@fishnet.net> <4dlt8f$1qom@seminole.gate.net> <DLGM5w.H8o@freenet.carleton.ca> <4dqj68$dcak@navajo.gate.net> <eric-
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- Eric Shaw (eric@accessorl.net) wrote:
- : In article <4e5na1$1cpq@seminole.gate.net>, dhaire@gate.net (doug haire) wrote:
- :
- : >2301962157260001@sobt.accessorl.net>:
- : >Distribution:
- : >
- : >Eric Shaw (eric@accessorl.net) wrote:
- :
- : >: In article <4dqj68$dcak@navajo.gate.net>, dhaire@gate.net (doug haire) wrote:
- : >A "lot of Rockwell modems"? Name some. My Supra certainly doesn't have it
- : >(running the 11/22/95 code). I do know that the Hayes Optima does support
- : >it. Who else? Zoom? BEC? Boca?
- :
- : Really? I know you can set the MNP block size to 256 and assumed
- : (apparently wrongly) that v.42 would go at least that far. Looks like I
- : was foot in mouth on that part of my last post. The older PPI's go to
- : 512, but PPI and Hayes are really the same company.
-
- V.42 can go that far. Whether the modem makers implement it is another
- question entirely. The advantage to larger blocks is lower overhead. The
- disadvantage is that it adds overhead on a poor line (larger blocks are
- resent).
-
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