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- From: JNavas@NavasGrp.com (John Navas)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Is V.34 really full duplex?
- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 01:08:26 GMT
- Organization: The Navas Group of Dublin, CA, USA
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- [Posted to comp.dcom.modems]
- karlberg@kth.se wrote:
-
- >Modems that communicate at 28.8 kbit/s, do they really do this with full
- >duplex?
-
- Yes.
-
- >Theoretically, the maximum transfer rate that can be achieved over
- >a telephone line is about 30 kbit/s, but then all the bandwidth is used, so
- >there would not be any room left for a second channel? I would really
- >appreciate if someone could tell me how this works.
-
- The bandwidth exists in both directions. The modems have special echo
- cancellation so that they do not "hear" what they are sending out.
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