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- Subject: Re: Free Internet/Usenet Access (was Re: Modem Madness)
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 03:56:07 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9211152256.10@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1992Nov05.004016.153932@zeus.calpoly.edu> <1992Nov7.204727.19039@jack.sns.com> <1992Nov11.003904.24046@pegasus.com> <1992Nov14.014504.21583@jack.sns.com>
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- In article <1992Nov14.014504.21583@jack.sns.com> steve@jack.sns.com (J. Steven Harrison) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov11.003904.24046@pegasus.com> richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
- >>>
- >>>We are using Telebit WorldBlazers between us and our provider and we are seeing
- >>>close to 75K throughput on SLIP or PPP. I beleive this is an even cheaper solution
- >>>than the ISDN solution which may/may not be available throughout the US (it is here
- >>>though).
- >>>
- >>
- >>Either this is an instantaneous rate, or you are sending really strange
- >>data, or you need to check your numbers again. Or perhaps you're
- >>referring to the combined throughput of a number of lines.
- >>
- >>
- >I'd be happy to if I had the time and if I knew it was worth doing. I would suggest
- >that if you have not read a WorldBlazer manual you do so.
-
- So are you saying that the "close to 75k" above is based on what you've read
- in the WorldBlazer manual, or was this determined by actual benchmarks on
- your part?
-
- I'm just curious, as a WorldBlazer is on my wish list.
-
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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