-=> CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 > certain value. The teleprotector is a diode bridge and SCR
 > arrangement that senses the phone line voltage, on hook, off
 > hook, and if it detectect low voltage off hook conditions it
 > effectively opens the phone line downleg of the protector. I
 > originally bought it so if I picked up the phone during a
 > download it wouldn't interfere with the download. Think of it
 > as an automated device that disconnects anything else on your
 > line if your modem is active.

 CA> Sounds like a handy thing to have, what does RS charge for
 CA> these?

Mines over seven years old years but when I bought it it was
9.95. I was going to make the darn thing it was so simple
but by the time you bought parts, case, modular plugs, modular
plug crimping tool...
It IS handy and you no-one downline of the device can scramble
your download. If I pick up my phone while the modem's on I get nothing,]
no screech from the modem no nothing.
If someone in the house is prone to eavesdropping they get nothing
on a phone downleg of the device.
Just looked online and the thing is mentioned but I cannot
readily find the price due to lousy page design, lousy
search engine, lack of downloadable PDF catalog and the fact
they were out of catalogs when I was last in there.

 > 50,667 on this download. All I'm seeing anymore is 49333,
 > 50667 and 52000 with the lions share going to 50,667.

 CA> Much better than anyone else I know. Very good.

I had to nag the phone company endlessly to get them to
swap a noisy line, took 8 months and the old pair wouldn't support
a 14,400 without resends.
First they argued and tried to place the blame on inside wiring
and devices so I disconnected everything at the outside box
and complained from there with crashing static on the line.
They sent out a tech, he replaced the drop, no joy.
About a dozen calls later I get a senior tech out here
and he listens at the junction box for about 20 seconds
and proclaims the line clear.
So I urge the dude to listen for one full minute, hurrah he
hears the sound of surf crashing on rocks and goes
to their distribution point and swapped my line pairs.
So essentially everything between here and the phone
company is brand new line and to this I attribute my good
connections, that and I'm pretty close to the phone company.
It _can_ be done but stock up on tranquilizers and blood pressure
medication before attempting to get the phone company to
provide you with the service they promise.

 > These software modems don't, in my case anyway, renegotiate
 > speed after the original connect.

 CA> My all-hardware modems don't either. I tried to get fancy with
 CA> lots of switches to force fast connects but if the ISP's modem
 CA> won't negotiate you wind up with a 'no connect' rather than a
 CA> better one. I gave up. :-\


I've had about a half dozen failures to connect on first try in the last
month. If I get a 48K connect I now redial to get a better
connection 

 > Downloaded a 39.4 meg PDF last night in 2 hours 4 min.

 CA> I usually expect 4 minutes per meg, you're 32 minutes shorter
 CA> than that. :-)

 > Your steaming audio plays great in either format.

 CA> Thanks. Any suggestions as to individual tunes that should be
 CA> altered, or music you expected to find there, or too much of
 CA> one particular type, etc. are always welcome. :-)

Rather too much on the plate to be a critic just now.
Have't really listened to more than a couple tunes there yet.
Really liked that old bluesy tune, Joplin? 
Multimedia with this new machine and the 56K line is a hoot.
I downloaded a streaming video the other day and the video
quality, if not the size of the image, was outstanding.
Some 800K per second of buffered video and my it was
quite impressive.

 
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