Once apon a time David Drummond said, 'Re: Fallback limits' to Con Aidonidis...

 CA> i wanted to know if anyone knows about the modem brand
 CA> "X-LINK" and if they are any good because i currently have
 CA> an x-link 28.8 internal and hardly every get above 21600bps
 CA> and i dunno what it could be.............

I just played around with an XLink 288i, 28.8K V34/VFC internal today,
and considering it seems to be a cheap taiwaneese modem, on a typical
good phoneline I was getting solid 28880/V42BIS connections
everywhere I tried, including toll calls..overall I couldnt fault it..

 DD> Shitty phone lines? Perhaps you should get cable . . .

I then tried it on my really shitty phone line at home (Telecom are going
to get a ring soon :-) and the best I could manage was 21600 with exactly
the same setup....

So you may have a poor phone line too...

Regards,
Simon

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