Gene Lowry wrote in a message to Bob Wingender:
 >> Glad I was reading the mail as I have all 5 of my Couriers enabled 
 >> to x2 even tho I only call out using 2 of them. x2 won't work on 
 >> incoming calls on a Courier v.everything.
 LM> It would if the caller had an ISDN Courier with X2.  But those
 LM> are few and far between.
 BW> I'm sorry, but I believe your wrong. For a caller to get x2, with an 
 BW> I-modem, I'd have to have an I-modem/ISDN/digital on MY end also.
 BW> I have an analog Courier with x2 enabled. I'm not a server..
 GL> And I believe that Larry is correct, but the x2 channel would be
 GL> from the caller to the BBS.  Not the desirable configuration for
 GL> fast downloads.  If you have I-modems on both ends you get an ISDN
 GL> connection and not an x2 if I recall correctly.
It doesn't matter if the x2-enabled I-Modem calls the x2 client, or the x2 
client calls the x2-enabled I-Modem, the x2 channel is always *from* the 
I-Modem *to* the client.  So it works great both ways if you're the x2 
ient.
Also, if one x2-enabled I-Modem calls another x2-enabled I-Modem, they can do 
either ISDN (64K/64K) by default _or_ synchronous x2 (64K/64K) by having one 
of the I-Modems force an analog call.  Why would you want synchronous x2 
instead of ISDN? Because USR's implementation of ISDN v.120 does not support 
data compression, and x2 does.
                                   - Bob
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