TL> I think I recall doug getting 1700+ when he first got the
 TL> modem. Now it's around 1690 or something I think ...

 IS> He might have given Terminate a spin :)

Possibly. Now he sticks with binkleyterm :)

 IS> That's 1700 / 1440 = 118%.  So 3360 x 118% = 3967 CPS.
 IS> 4000 CPS would be 119% at 33600bps, equivalent to
 IS> _1714_ CPS at 14400.  Um, I'm with Arthur, at least
 IS> till we see a matched pair of logs to the contrary :)

 TL> Your estimate is only 33 off 4000 :) Not much difference,

 IS> All the difference, re achievability with the same 
 IS> protocols.  Once a line is clean and carries full 
 IS> design bandwidth, with no repeated blocks, that's it; 
 IS> you're not going to magically find a better one one day.

No, you won't find a better one. But 33 cps does not make much difference.
Apart from being able to say my modem goes past 4000cps! Instead of my
modem does 3967cps! Woohoo!

 TL> and a few people say they have witnessed it between two
 TL> 33.6's :) But does it really make much diff if you get 3967
 TL> or 4000 :)

 IS> Not to me :)  Many people, for reasons completely 
 IS> beyond me, consider numbers with zeroes on the end to 
 IS> be some sort of sacred.  The more zeroes, the more 
 IS> they're in awe.  Witness all the hoopla about 
 IS> 'millenia'.  Fingers and toes?  Dunno, but it's 
 IS> curious.  But we digress ..

But 4000 has no more zeroes than 3000 :) just a higher number at the start.
What if one person got 1000 and another got 3333, I think the latter would
be happier, even if the former has more zeroes! :)

Tai

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