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- From: Rigor@clever.net (Matt Fox)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Is USR going to support 42bis+ on future courier upgrades?
- Date: 23 Mar 1996 15:14:05 GMT
- Organization: Best Internet Communications
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- In article <4j0091$pli@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>, bigrex@primenet.com says...
- >
- >I'm wondering if USR will come up with a V.42bis+(230,000 dte 8:1
- >compression) on the couriers? Is this just a sales gimmick? Can you
- >actually get twice the compression on say text files 2.5:1 to say 5:1? If
- >this is possible it would seem with V.34+ and V.42bis+ and given the fact
- >that most current ISDN setup's don't support compression it could give
- >Analog modems a more competitive edge against ISDN. Text throughputs in
- >the 13 to 20k bytes/sec would be great if this isn't just a smoke screen.
- >
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- its just marketing hype your rarely gunna get anything past 3:1 in the
- real world
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