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- From: floyd@polarnet.com (Floyd Davidson)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: 28.8 baud & telco responsibilities
- Date: 2 Mar 1996 19:14:26 GMT
- Organization: __________
- Message-ID: <4ha6mi$pmo@news2.cais.com>
- References: <todamhyp-2802961822500001@bhppp31.bluehawk.com> <4h4kaf$dla@netaxs.com> <4h8pp2$gdj@news.cais.com> <4h96s8$cea@navajo.gate.net>
- Reply-To: floyd@tanana.polarnet.com
- NNTP-Posting-Host: tanana.polarnet.com
-
- dhaire@gate.net wrote:
- >Christopher L. Estep (christopher.estep@idsonline.com) wrote:
- >:
- >: Granted. However, if you inform your telco UP FRONT that a particular
- ...
- >: 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).
- >
- >Fascinating...
- >
- >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).
-
- There are loads of people using satellite transmission; however,
- it isn't affect by sunspot activity. For that you have to go back
- to where HF radio was in use... (Satellite "sun outages" have
- nothing to do with sunspot activity, BTW.)
-
- Floyd
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- Floyd L. Davidson Salcha, Alaska floyd@tanana.polarnet.com
-