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- From: JNavas@NavasGrp.com (John Navas)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Why 33600?
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 16:52:24 GMT
- Organization: The Navas Group of Dublin, CA, USA
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- [Posted to comp.dcom.modems]
- estarry@oro.net (Ed Starry) wrote:
-
- >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.
- >==============================
- >
- > 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.
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-
- No offense, but that's nonsense.
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