Ian, at 23:05 on Mar 21 1997, you wrote to Arthur Marsh...

IS> Meanwhile the performance of a rival 56Kbps technology 
IS> from US Robotics has come under fire after independent tests 
IS> by Windows Sources magazine failed to achieve download 
IS> speeds higher than 44.8Kbps [..]"

Can't remember now if you're a USR_Modems echo lurker or not, but at least
one fellow has posted his Courier's link diagnostics screen which indicated
a Rx link rate in excess of that 44k8bps figure.  I'll see if I can locate
the relevant message and do a quick x-post for you.  

Later:  It was actually in a message which I x-posted from USR_Modems to
this echo last week - 'twas a 48000/24000 x2/V.34 connect, BTW.

The most surprising aspect that I've noticed so far is that the bandwidth
of some x2/V.34 links is so poor that the Tx rate is somewhere around the
24000bps mark, yet the x2 downlink is rocketing away at over double that
figure, say 48kbps or so.  x2 might be a little specialised, but I'm still
fairly impressed so far.

IS> Quoted only for purposes of study ..

The truth is out there...  :)

Regards, Bill

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