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- From: "G. Dragon" <Vadim@infsviaz.msk.su>
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- Subject: Re: ? Max speed for voice line
- Date: 6 Feb 1996 11:20:45 +0300
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- vasant@passport.ca (Bill Antic) wrote:
- >odchetveriko@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Oleg Chetverikov) wrote:
- >
- >>I have a question.
- >>I am taking a networking class and my prof said that the highest speed
- >>that can be achieved over the voice grade line (telephone line) is
- >>25,900 bps. I suppose he was talking about physical transmission, without
- >>taking compession into consideration. My question is whether it is correct. And
- >>if it is, does it mean that 28.8 modems do not operate at full capacity?
- >
- > ...
- >
- >The data transfer rate, on the other hand, depends on the type of
- >modulation used, and that is why we must differentiate between the
- >terms "baud" and "bits/sec". For example, if we employ a quad-bit
- >modulation, also known as quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK), each
- >LINE transition would represent four bits of DATA, hence a 2400 baud
- >line would have a data transmission rate of 9600 bps. This appears to
- >be the practical limit of data transfer WITHOUT DATA COMPRESSION.
- >
- > The extent to which data can be compressed depends on the type of
- >data, but generally accepted ratio is 4:1, more or less. If we take
- >the above example of 9600 bps and multiply it by the compression ratio
- >of 4, we get the maximum DATA transfer rate of 38,400 bps. This
- >therefore means that the DATA transfer rate over a voice grade line
- >could be as high as 38,400 bps while the signaling speed at the same
- >time is only 2400 baud. Of course you must realize that this is a
- >theoretical limit. In practice we have to take into account the line
- >noise, type of data which will affect compression ratio, and some
- >other factors, resulting in a typical rating values of 28.8k or 33.6k
- >for modems. You must keep in mind, however, that although a modem may
- >be rated at, say 28,800 bps, the actual transmission rate is usually
- >less, often 24,600 or even 20,000 bps. It depends on the condition
- >of the line, type of data, etc., etc.
-
- Does this means that if I switch my modem into direct mode (without flow
- control and data compression), I'll have only 9600 bits/s? In such
- cases my V.34 modem works much faster than 1200 bytes/s (9600 bits/s) ...
-
- G. Dragon
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