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- From: dhaire@gate.net (doug haire)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: 28.8 baud & telco responsibilities
- Date: 2 Mar 1996 05:11:20 -0500
- Organization: CyberGate, Inc.
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- Christopher L. Estep (christopher.estep@idsonline.com) wrote:
- : 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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- Fascinating...
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- Cellular and pager growth have no effect on residential (or business) lines.
- Sunspot activity also has no effect on line quality (it used to have some
- but virtually no one is using satellite transmission anymore).
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