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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Path: netcom.com!puma
- From: puma@netcom.com (Gary Breuckman)
- Subject: Re: Why 33600?
- Message-ID: <pumaDpvBwB.C3K@netcom.com>
- Organization: organized?? me?
- References: <4kn9v9$n6e@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <4kok44$mj9@hg.oro.net>
- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 20:07:23 GMT
- Sender: puma@netcom22.netcom.com
-
- In article <4kok44$mj9@hg.oro.net>, Ed Starry <estarry@oro.net> wrote:
- >
- > 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.
-
- Without arguing the merits of whether a 'cached serial port' would improve
- the speed of a 14.4 modem, a 28.8 modem is still going to be that much
- faster.
-
-
- > The marketing image that 'bigger is better' has overshadowed the more
- >sensible notion of 'bigger is simply bigger'.
-
- "Faster is better" makes sense to me, all else being equal. If the
- increase in speed results in either a time saving or telephone charge
- saving that is worth more than the increased cost of the faster modem,
- it sounds fair.
-
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