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Post #33,343
by SpiceWare
3/25/02 9:34:11 AM
3/25/02 1:59:52 PM
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New 56K
requires the phone company to be all digital, the path between your phone company and your ISP to be all digital, and finally your ISP must have a digital phone line. The ISP uses special modems to support 56K - that's why you can never get 56K if you direct connect to a friends modem. The only analog conversion allowed for 56K to work is from you to your phone company.

A single analog system between you and your ISP will cause it to drop to 33.6K standards. I cannot get 56K where I live because my phone company has older analog equipment. I'm not concerned though, I've got a cable modem :-)

Darrell Spice, Jr.

[link|http://home.houston.rr.com/spiceware/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore

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Post #33,372
by wharris2
3/25/02 1:01:58 PM
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New I'm getting 45-48K with my 56 modem
Local telco must have upgraded phone lines recently, I used to get a max of 28.
"I didn't know you could drive to Europe." -- An eavesdropper, piping in when he overheard a conversation about someone who had driven to Montreal.
     Because I can... - (Meerkat) - (10) - March 22, 2002, 07:53:05 AM EST
         Only $9 to be less silly :-) - (SpiceWare) - (9) - March 22, 2002, 09:11:55 AM EST
             So cheap! Still 40bucks or so here - (Meerkat) - (8) - March 22, 2002, 05:02:26 PM EST
                 ...but I thought... - (kmself) - (2) - March 24, 2002, 02:42:42 AM EST
                     Heh, the Australian Cowrie Shell is up! - (Meerkat) - (1) - March 24, 2002, 07:31:07 PM EST
                         AU$ = 0.53 USD or US$1 = AU$1.886 - (a6l6e6x) - March 25, 2002, 08:02:17 PM EST
                 Dreamcast - (orion) - (4) - March 24, 2002, 04:05:11 PM EST
                     Pop-up keyboard. - (Meerkat) - (3) - March 24, 2002, 07:35:06 PM EST
                         Modems 33.6K - (orion) - (2) - March 24, 2002, 10:23:26 PM EST
                             56K - (SpiceWare) - (1) - March 25, 2002, 01:59:52 PM EST
                                 I'm getting 45-48K with my 56 modem - (wharris2) - March 25, 2002, 01:01:58 PM EST

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