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- From: estarry@oro.net (Ed Starry)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Why 33600?
- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 09:17:24 -0700
- Organization: "oronet, Penn Valley, CA"
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- polpchm@vt.edu (Pak-Meng Cham) wrote about {Why 33600?} in
- 'comp.dcom.modems'...
-
- ~I usually get my 28.8k v3.4 modem connect at 26400bps. Over the year, it
- ~might connect at 28.8 kps for 3 or 4 times. Many say that 28.8k is already
- ~pushing the limit of the phone line and most of the time it just won't go to
- ~28.8kps. As the latest model (one by USR) push the limit even higher, I
- ~wonder if it make any practical sense.
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- Not really! If people would start demanding (and using) 'cached serial
- ports' they would discover even 14.4's are much faster than they realize. To
- me this increasing of the Analog Rate is a marketing ploy.
- The marketing image that 'bigger is better' has overshadowed the more
- sensible notion of 'bigger is simply bigger'. Diminishing returns is never
- considered when it pertains to advertising.
-
- Ed...
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