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From: Paul 
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Subject: Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 17:53:36 -0500
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Ant wrote:
> james@nospam.com wrote:
> ...
>> I never connect at 56k. If I get 44K I'm lucky. Most of the time I get
>> around 30K. There is about one mile of old copper cable coming to my
>> house from the pedestal along the road, and the wire coming ot the
>> pedestal is probably also real old. When you live in a rural area, these
>> old wires were only meant to be used for voice telephone.
> 
> Better than me. Mine were awful at home and college 30 minuts away. 
> Connections were mostly at 26400. Lucky at 31200. It didn't matter where 
> and how good my modems were. Average was about 3kBs for compressed datas 
> in downloads.

But you know why that is, right ?

Your download max was 33.6, not 56K.

A 56K modem has a fallback to 33.6K protocol, if the modem pool at the
other end indicates it doesn't support 56K.

The people who run modem pools, can't always afford to upgrade them.

There are standards like V.34, V90, and V92. I didn't get
V92 here - AFAIK, things stopped here at V90.

> 
> Also, I couldn't get DSL. I could get IDSL, but that was like 144 Kbs 
> that costed over $100 IIRC back in the 2000s. And then Excite@Home with 
> Adelphia came among. It sucked too until it became DOCSIS complaint and 
> had a complete digital makeover. :/

That was ISDN, and the max there is "2B+D". 2*64K+16K = 144K.
With ISDN, you could "take a phone call", and your computer
connection would drop to approximately half speed. Which is neat.

The deployment of ISDN was delayed enough, it overlapped
with ADSL, and thus ISDN couldn't have any momentum.

At work, one of my buddies worked on ISDN. He got a
reward and a plaque, for finishing the project on time.
(Not many of our major projects finished on time :-) )
And he got promoted. Too bad that ISDN didn't sell,
and ten years later, when telecoms were interested in
installing it, the product was "manufacturer discontinued".
Which means we never made any money off it. There
was no "production peak".

The people in Europe seemed to have access to ISDN,
and I vaguely remember some "Fritz modem" being used
for the ISDN end.

    Paul
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