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- From: jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: HST & SUpra: which is faster?
- Message-ID: <3675@faatcrl.UUCP>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 13:35:51 GMT
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- kehlet@kehlet.adsp.sub.org (Jesper Kehlet) writes:
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- >Locally (Denmark, that is), we're almost done with digitalising the entire
- >phone network, so it wouldn't be impossible to get >24k bps. It's not
- >28.8k, but it's a whole lot better than 14.4k.
-
- I should have kept in mind where you live before I answered, yes, in Denmark
- the logistics for a switch to digital would be much less of a problem than
- here in the states.
-
- >Somewhere out there, it's naturally not obtainable before mid 90's, I know,
- >especially France and Italy has got VERY poor phone lines, but they're not
- >alone...
-
- Hehe, no lie about that. If New York City wasn't so damned expensive, I'd
- almost move back just for the quality of the phone and electric service... ;-)
-
- >But, here in Denmark, we look forward to getting it. So does the germans,
- >which has started (as we have) on the ISDN (sp?) phone lines. They will
- >give you up to 64kbit/sec on upto 4 (four!) simultaneous lines. Now,
- >that's something I look forward to get.
-
- ISDN is definately the long term, high speed solution (for the moment),
- I'd much rather have that as well.
-
- -jack-
-