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- From: dhaire@gate.net (doug haire)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: faster than 28.8
- Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.dcom.modems
- Date: 12 Feb 1996 17:13:56 -0500
- Organization: CyberGate, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4foe34$e02@hopi.gate.net>
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- Eric Shaw (eric@accessorl.net) wrote:
- : In article <4fku07$1o7i@navajo.gate.net>, dhaire@gate.net (doug haire) wrote:
- :
- : >I do not know why your Supra gets good rates under your test. It makes
- : >little sense to me that it would perform well under what should be
- : >terrible conditions for a modem connection. Especially since my Supra
- : >consistently gets lousier rates (connect rates and compressed file
- : >transfer rates) on the same lines that my Courier's find almost perfect.
- :
- : It could be because USR's transmit louder. When directly connected to a
- : USR, typing AT%Q1 from command mode on the Supra reported a receive level
- : of -6dBm and transmit of -15dBm. Connected to another Supra, it reported
- : -14dBm receive and -15dBm transmit. My apartment has some bad crosstalk
- : between the two lines. When my roommate with a noname Rockwell based 14.4
- : is on the modem, you can hear the modem in the background on the other
- : line, but its quiet enough to use it. When my roommate with a Dual
- : Standard is on the modem, you can't hear what anyone says on the other
- : line over the modem.
-
- Oh, bullshit!
-
- If you can hear all this noise on the line, get the damned lines fixed or
- just quit lying about it. I have had the crosstalk problem you mentioned
- (internal wiring problem in a house in jacksonville) and had the same
- amount of noise from a Packard Bell 2400 as I did with my USR's.
-
- Just run the tests I asked you to and quit trying to avoid it.
-
-