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to: Hamish Moffatt
from: Dave Hatch
date: 1997-03-11 21:25:18
subject: USR upgrade

On Mar 02 19:17 97, Hamish Moffatt of 3:632/552 wrote:

HM> Hello Steven!

HM> Thursday February 27 1997 20:32, Steven Anderson wrote to John Piper:

JP>>> 64K ISDN is what I would call "kicking butt" in comparison.
>>  How is a 64k ISDN kicking butt when its not even double a 33k6 modem

HM> As I understand it, lower overheards and lower latency on ISDN than on 
HM> modems. So the effective performance is double or near enough.

Just the milliseconds of connect time, vis the many seconds of trainup
time, is probably enough to give the margin.  The near total absence of
errors is gravy.

Regards,
Dave Hatch.

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