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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Path: FreeNet.Carleton.CA!an171
- From: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Subject: Re: Phone Line Quality Check
- Message-ID: <DM9nuB.F5C@freenet.carleton.ca>
- Sender: an171@freenet2.carleton.ca (Anthony Hill)
- Reply-To: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- References: <310BE2EF.49B9@harris.com> <4ej091$23t4@hopi.gate.net> <4eq4s7$4ta@gidora.kralizec.net.au>
- Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 19:37:23 GMT
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- Carl Renneberg (renneber@tmx.mhs.oz.au) writes:
- > I'm about to join an Australian startup which plans to do a lot of R&D, and
- > some
- > of it will be in this area: testing ("probing") telephone lines from the
- > customer's premises, adaptive echo cancellation and impedance matching in
- > customer equipment, and so on.
- >
- > Would anyone be interested in a product that could measure various aspects of
- > their local phone line(s) eg actual line impedance, SNR, level of mains
- > harmonics, etc; a product aimed at telling you how good your line is for modem
- > and fax applications?
-
- Not unless it's pretty damn cheap, since you can already get that
- info from a decent modem. For about $300 (a lot less if you buy 'em used),
- you can pick up an AT&T Compshere 19.2 or Motorola Codex 14.4 and get
- pretty much all that info, plus you get a damn good modem in the deal..
-
- Anthony
-
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- Anthony Hill | an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
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