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- From: dhaire@gate.net (doug haire)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: faster than 28.8
- Date: 18 Feb 1996 06:19:55 -0500
- Organization: CyberGate, Inc.
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- John White (jwhite@fishnet.net) wrote:
- : doug haire wrote:
- : >
- :
- : > : > : 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.
- : > :
- : > : Hate to break it to you, but he may have come accross a perfectly
- : > : valid solution as to why he got the results he did. Now, that's not to
- : > : say that this in any way reflects the performance of the modem over real
- : > : world conditions, but it could explain why his tests results were the way
- : > : they were. It also brings up an intersting question of why the Courier
- : > : didn't correctly adjust it's Tx Power level like the Supra did.
- : >
- : > And I say it's bullshit. How about that? Where's the testing over live
- : > circuits? When's he going to do this?
- : >
- : > If you believe what he says, go read the db levels with a USR Courier
- : > online and then with some other modem then report back here with the results.
- : > I don't believe him and I don't believe you.
- :
- : All this from a person who USES USR supplied test files to perform his
- : testing. When are we going to see some testing with REAL WORLD files!
-
- I also used Shaw's BLANK.BMP and have used Hayes' uncompressed test
- files. All my results have been consistent. I have posted both the USR
- file tests and the BLANK.BMP tests. What files would you like me to use?
- Simply tell me the names and where I can get them and I will run any test
- you like comparing the Courier with the Supra.
-
- When are you going to do *any* testing?
-
-