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- Path: FreeNet.Carleton.CA!an171
- From: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Is V.34 really full duplex?
- Date: 20 Apr 1996 00:14:30 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- Sender: an171@freenet2.carleton.ca (Anthony Hill)
- Message-ID: <4l9a96$km4@freenet-news.carleton.ca>
- References: <4l8kfr$stu@news.kth.se>
- Reply-To: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- NNTP-Posting-Host: freenet2.carleton.ca
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-
- (karlberg@kth.se) writes:
- > Modems that communicate at 28.8 kbit/s, do they really do this with full
- > duplex? Theoretically, the maximum transfer rate that can be achieved over
-
- Yup, full duples.
-
- > 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 maximum theoretical transfer rate that can be achieved over
- PSTN lines varies, but in most areas it seems to be somewhere around 28 or
- 29kbps to about 37 or 38kbps. Of course, modems can't quite reach the
- theoretical maximum. But now comes the tricky part. Modern modems use
- what's called echo cancelation. This means that BOTH modems are sending
- at 28.8kbps (or whatever speed they happen to be running at), each using
- the MAXIMUM bandwidth. Then they subract the noise that their making and
- all the echo and such, and what they're left with is the nosie that the
- other modem is making.
-
- Anthony
-
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- Anthony Hill | an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
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