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- From: geoff@zswamp.UUCP (Geoffrey Welsh)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Fast modems over long distances?
- Message-ID: <aZowVB2w165w@zswamp.UUCP>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 22:02:45 EST
- References: <S.M.Clark-141292105534@eta.lut.ac.uk>
- Organization: Izot's Swamp
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- S.M.Clark@lut.ac.uk (Sean Clark) writes:
-
- > Has anyone experience in setting up high speed modem connections over
- > *very* long distances? I am interested in linking two Macs, one in the
- > UK and one in Australia (roughly 10,000 miles) via Hayes Optima 144
- > (v32bis) modems and would like to know what problems to expect.
-
- You'll probably hear a lot of votes for Telebit's PEP modems, and I have to
- admit that they take best advantage of lines with more than slight
- impairments. However, a friend of mine who has extensive experience with, as
- you put it, "*very* long distance connections" reports that there seems to be
- some kind of brick wall for PEP connections on extremely long calls. He has
- not quantified the problem, but I can tell you that our experience with calls
- between North America and Australia work extremely well with PEP modems. I'd
- be willing to be that, if there was a problem with UK-Oz connections with PEP
- modems, you probably won't fare much better with any other kind.
-
- Then again, V.32bis' full duplex operation might offer performance
- advantages, and Hayes modems are about as good quality as you'll get without
- spending significantly more, and even then the difference may not be
- significant.
-
- > Will there be a serious network latency (i.e. over half a second)?
-
- With V.32bis there may be, depending on how the call is routed. With PEP,
- you can count on it because of how long it takes to reverse the carriers over
- a long distance link.
-
- > Will it be robust?
-
- This year I replaced a client's 2400MNP link from Toronto to Singapore with
- Telebit PEP modems; they were accustomed to the calls lasting only a few
- minutes, and now they can't imagine how they ever put up with that: their PEP
- connections last four hours if necessary.
-
- > At Loughborough University we have successfully run ISDN over the same
- > distance without problems.
-
- If the connection is digital end to end, then I am not at all surprised...
- but ISDN is a bit out of my realm of experience.
-
- Geoffrey Welsh, 7 Strath Humber Court, Islington, Ontario, M9A 4C8 Canada
- geoff@zswamp.uucp, [xenitec.on.ca|m2xenix.psg.com]!zswamp!geoff (416)258-8467
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