On Sep 09 17:53, 1997, Charles Mielke of 1:3639/46 wrote:
CM>     14.4 was all I needed, until I got on the Web. Even then,
CM> it was doing OK, but at $1 per hour, seemed like it might
CM> eventually turn out to be economical to get a faster one.
CM>     300 bps? Holy Mackerel! First one I had was 1200, then
CM> went to 2400, then leaped to the 14.4 which, to me, was
CM> blazingly fast.
300 is blazing fast.  The _first_ modem I built ran at 45 Baud. :-)  _That's_ 
slow!  I do know of another "service" though that runs at about 11 Baud.  I 
can't tell you anything about that one, though. :-)
The 300bps circuit is to the local "standard time" provider.  The data 
transmission itself (a binary coded time and date) takes less than a second 
at 300 bps, and using a higher speed just isn't necessary.  You'd spend more 
time negotiating V.34 than you'd actually spend receiving the data. :-)
Rick
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