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- From: bennett@primenet.com (John Bennett)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: are 'byte-wide' modems possible
- Date: 19 Apr 1996 13:24:01 -0700
- Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet
- Sender: root@primenet.com
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- References: <Ken.Crossman-1104961348100001@ts1-port4.mas.ualberta.ca> <4l4g8c$968@sam.inforamp.net> <morris-1804962309420001@morris.vip.best.com>
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- In article <morris-1804962309420001@morris.vip.best.com>,
- morris@best.com (Paul Morris) wrote:
- >In article <4l4g8c$968@sam.inforamp.net>, crs0794@inforamp.net (Geoffrey
- >Welsh) wrote:
- >
- >> In article <Ken.Crossman-1104961348100001@ts1-port4.mas.ualberta.ca>,
- >> Ken.Crossman@ualberta.ca (Ken Crossman) wrote:
- >> >The latest word about modems has it that 33.6kb is about the limit. If I
- >>
- >> "About the limit" is a good description. I'm sure that we could go higher,
- >> but why bother putting research into slight gains? We certainly won't be
- >> doubling the bit rate again unless the entire telephone network is
- >> revolutionized.
- >>
- ><snip>
- >
- >
- >Let's try another tack. Is there any reasonable way to bond together two
- >analogue lines in order to get 67.2 kbps without the metered cost of ISDN?
- >
- >Paul
-
- This is supposed to be a new feature of Remote Access Service in Windows NT
- 4.0, as well as support for PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol), allowing
- virtual private network connections over the Internet. Looks pretty cool.
-
- --John
-
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