[plug] modems (was Re: [plug] Gut modem für Linux? [those blinkinglights again])

[Bret Busby]

Tony Clark wrote:
> 
> At 21:03 20/08/00 +0800, you wrote:
> >The number of drop-outs which I have experienced since installing the v 90
> >Acer
> >have been no higher than thos which I had with a 33,3 K Modem. I accept
> >that you
> >will not get 56k transfer rate, in practice the actual results are about 46 k
> >doubtless  due to the constraints of  telephone lines, after all these were
> >designed many years ago and were intended for analogue speach purposes in the
> >100-2000 hertz band. The v 90 just pushes the limits as far as it can, and
> >I do not
> >know of anyone who can get anything much better than the 46-47 K rate that
> >I get
> >with mine. The points raised elsewhere are quite relevant, and the plug pack
> >supplied with the Acer is about twice the size (and rating) of most of the
> >other
> >Modems I have seen.  As a general rule you only get what you are prepared
> >to pay
> >for, but then how come M$ get away with it?
> 
> For what it's worth, i get 54K connections here..I find when running NT I
> get the odd dropout.  Don't know why actually but it seems when NT is under
> load and the connection is 54K it will drop out sometimes.  If I tell the
> modem not to go above 50.6K it is steady as a rock. Don't see the problem
> as much under linux...same modem etc....anyway ISDN is the same price as
> POTS here and i am just waiting for that to be installed.
> 
> Tony Clark
> HDL Electronics Pty Ltd
> Contract VHDL, FPGA, ASIC and Electronic Design Services
> Mobile: +46 702 894 667

Ah, yes, but, where is the here? Is it in the Perth CBD, or, in an
eastern states capital? Neither the message, nor the four line
signature, give any indication of where the here is, where a 54K
connection can be maintained...

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Bret Busby

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