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- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 18:18:55 EST
- From: jordan@imsi.com (Jordan Hayes)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Airfone -- Phooey
- Message-ID: <telecom12.846.6@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 846, Message 6 of 13
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- Kenny Crudup <kenny@osf.osf.org> writes:
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- > "No RJ11 jack (for modem)" - the bandwith ain't good enough to
- > let you use one, from the specs I've read here.
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- Actually, Peter Honeyman recently put an accoustic coupler onto one at
- 35,000 feet and got his modem to connect, albeit at 300 baud. He got
- PPP up and working, but was getting 60 second round trip times from
- ICMP echo packets ... I guess they were spending all their time
- getting corrected between the modems ... :-)
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- jordan
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