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- Path: FreeNet.Carleton.CA!an171
- From: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: are 'byte-wide' modems possible
- Date: 19 Apr 1996 23:48:08 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- Sender: an171@freenet2.carleton.ca (Anthony Hill)
- Message-ID: <4l98no$j1j@freenet-news.carleton.ca>
- References: <Ken.Crossman-1104961348100001@ts1-port4.mas.ualberta.ca> <4l4g8c$968@sam.inforamp.net> <morris-1804962309420001@morris.vip.best.com>
- Reply-To: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- NNTP-Posting-Host: freenet2.carleton.ca
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- Paul Morris (morris@best.com) writes:
- > 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?
-
- Certainly, although this is almost certainly to be a function of
- the software (on both ends) and not the modem. Multilink PPP (the same
- protocol used to make 128kbps ISDN TCP/IP connections) will work with two
- modems if you have the correct software. Of course, I've yet to hear of
- anyone actually writing that software..
-
- Anthony
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- Anthony Hill | an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
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