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- From: dale@giskard.demon.co.uk (Dale Shuttleworth)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: modem's maximum speed?
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 23:24:53 GMT
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- Hi,
-
- BooYoung Chung (kornet) (bychung@soback.kornet.nm.kr) wrote:
- : I would like to know the highest theoritic speed?
- : Please help me.
-
- Which maximum do you want?
-
- Maximum "practical" bit rate over POTS (switched, analogue
- presented phone - "Plain Old Telephone System") using present
- modulation methods (QAM) is around 38kbps.
-
- * I doubt that it will be financially worthwhile for modem
- manufacturers to development modems for POTS with speeds in
- excess of the currently available 33.6kbps.
-
- Maximum "perfect world" bit rate over POTS (switched, analogue
- presented phone - "Plain Old Telephone System") is 64kbps
- (56kbps in many parts of the USA).
-
- * This is completely impossible to achieve in any real world
- (including this one!).
-
- Maximum bit rate over existing telephone cables is dependant on
- length. At least 500kbps should be possible for most suburban
- locations and hardware exists for speeds up to 6Mbps (though
- currently with asymetric data rates - ie much lower throughput
- in the other direction). Significant (and expensive) changes
- would have to be made to the telephone switches to accommodate
- this technology.
-
- * Look for further information on "cable modems", *DSL, etc.
-
- Maximum bit rate over a single waveguide. Possibly infinite -
- probably only limited by the amount of energy you wish to expend,
- but check with someone with lots of physics knowledge.
-
- Dale.
-
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