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- From: floyd@hayes.ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Serial and Parallel interface ?????
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.101411.27201@raven.alaska.edu>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 10:14:11 GMT
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- In article <clemon.08l2@lemsys.UUCP> clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon VE3XCL) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul18.135932.3904@qiclab.scn> leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com writes:
- >
- >>
- >>In the old days, some leased line modems increased speed by using
- >>*two* pairs of wires.
- >
- > This is still done today, Telebit Netblazers can be configured this
- >way. It's referred to as 4-wire leased line. The ZyXEL U-1496S also has
- >some special 4-wire features.
-
-
- I am not familiar with either the Netblazer or the U-1496S, but
- 4-wire leased line service is not a method to increase speed as
- such. The exact same speed can be obtained with a 2-wire leased
- line (or a 2-wire dial-up for that matter, if we discount the
- fact that a leased line can be conditioned and a dial up line
- normally cannot).
-
- The reason to use a 4-wire circuit to start with is to avoid the
- potential degradation of line quality when the 2-wire line is
- converted to a 4-wire line at the telco before it is routed
- to any type of digital or analog carrier or multiplex systems.
- All such systems operate as 4-wire devices, and the hybrid
- to convert from a 2-wire device is not as clean as just
- using a 4-wire circuit to begin with.
-
- Floyd
-