* John Piper writes to David Drummond, on Sunday January 12 1997
   at 23:42:

 JP> Given the distance (Mooroobool, QLD to Sydney, NSW), 31200 was quite
 JP> good. I wonder whether or not the link shifted up at all.

Total distance is irrelevant though. The only concern is the local loop at
either end. Any given call will go digital at the first possible instance,
and will be converted back to analog as close as possible to the other end.
There's no degradation whatsoever of signals while they travel over digital
links (unless there is some sort of fault).

Cheers.

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