[ILUG] Connection speeds??

[John P. Looney]

On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 09:50:30PM +0000, Nick Hilliard mentioned:
> 4.4kbytes/sec on a v.90 modem is fairly respectable, and probably well
> reflects the quality of your phone line (no comments about this, please,
> Kate!)

 Now now. Modems all use the frequencies you can pick up with your ear -
so as long as your thing reception when talking over your line is OK,
copper or nickel-coated cable - you should get similar results. The reason
for this is that no two countries phone or cabling infrastructure is the
same - but you can be guaranteed that information can be transmitted at
using bands use for human speech - else it's not a very good phone system.

Kate

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