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- Path: FreeNet.Carleton.CA!an171
- From: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Subject: Re: faster than 28.8
- Message-ID: <DMssDM.D3y@freenet.carleton.ca>
- Sender: an171@freenet5.carleton.ca (Anthony Hill)
- Reply-To: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- References: <sumner-2001961038000001@sumner.tiac.net> <eric-2601960120540001@sobt.accessorl.n <4foe34$e02@hopi.gate.net> <DMqKFH.CpI@freenet.carleton.ca> <4fs7vs$spt@zippy.cais.net>
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 03:29:46 GMT
-
-
- Floyd Davidson (floyd@polarnet.com) writes:
- > In article <DMqKFH.CpI@freenet.carleton.ca>,
- > Anthony Hill <an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote:
- >>
- >>doug haire (dhaire@gate.net) writes:
- >>> Eric Shaw (eric@accessorl.net) wrote:
- >>> : In article <4fku07$1o7i@navajo.gate.net>, dhaire@gate.net (doug haire) wrote:
- >>> : 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!
- > ...
- >>> 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.
- >
- > Until he gets the phone line fixed there is _nothing_ about any of
- > his measurements of any kind (levels, data rates, or whatever)
- > that is accurate or useful. What he is describing is a very
- > serious impairment on his telephone line that certainly is more
- > significant than any of the apparent problems he has described and
- > attributed to his modem(s).
- >
- > Likewise, anyone who is testing modems and doesn't recognize what
- > he has described is not aware enough about modems and telephone
- > lines to make valid observations of what is happening, so all of
- > his observations and conclusions are suspect.
-
- Do you realize that you basically just said that Couriers wouldn't
- work well on impaired lines while his Supra did? I somehow don't think
- that's the point you were trying to prove. In any case, if you had
- followed the document you should know that the tests weren't even run over
- the phone lines, they were run over a dirrect connection.
-
- Anthony
-
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- Anthony Hill | an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
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