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- From: christopher.estep@idsonline.com (Christopher L. Estep)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: 28.8 baud & telco responsibilities
- Date: 2 Mar 1996 06:27:46 GMT
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- In article <4h4kaf$dla@netaxs.com>
- alpert@netaxs.com (Robert Alpert) wrote:
-
- > In case you hadn't noticed, the telephone network was designed
- > for analog VOICE communication. This salient fact is sometimes
- > lost on .edu "doodz" and other clueless youngsters. There is no
- > guarantee that an ordinary phone line will do anything but carry your
- > voice. Anything else is gravy.
-
- Granted. However, if you inform your telco UP FRONT that a particular
- line will be used primarily for DATA, they may give you a better-quality
- "pair" than if you say nothing. When this line was installed, I told
- the installer that the line would be used primarily for data, as opposed
- to voice. I now have probably one of the cleanest lines in the
- area (even with the tremendous growth in phone numbers, due
- to cellular, pager, and other modem, faxmodem, and fax machine
- traffic) BECAUSE I spoke up (even at times of high sunspot activity,
- I can usually connect at no worse than 21600 with my V.FC to a V.34;
- most V.34s on standard lines usually fall back to 19200 or worse at
- the peak sunspot times, even when calling another V.34).
-
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