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- From: dhaire@gate.net (doug haire)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Any way to fight the phone company?
- Date: 4 Feb 1996 04:29:05 -0500
- Organization: CyberGate, Inc.
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- Marc Fuller (marc.fuller@vissgi.cvrti.utah.edu) wrote:
- : As a former AT&T employee, and not a particular happy one, I can tell you
- : your legal rights on this are nonexistent. If you want a conditioned (digital
- : quality) line they expect you to pay for it. You may, however, tell them your
- : having trouble sending faxes and get a better response. There is a good
- : chance that your second line is a SLCC ( a frequency multiplexed line on the
- : same pair of wires as your first) These often have problems with digital
- : transmission.
-
- Arrgggggh!!!! Once again, we have the myth of the SLC as a poor facility
- for data. The SLC is nothing more than digital carrier technology. If
- properly optioned, it is *better* than having standard copper all the way
- to your central office. I live 10 miles from my telco's CO and all three
- of my lines are on an SLC. I get 31200/31200 connects (solid and stable
- with rates of 3600+ cps on compressed files) over 90% of the time between
- 2 USRs (my spare line to my BBS). SLC's do not "often have problems" with
- any modem connections and modems don't use digital transmission, they use
- analog.
-
- I am a current (25 years) employee of AT&T.
-
-
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- "Things are more like they are now than they ever were before."
- [Dwight D. Eisenhower]
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