>>Any speed over 33600 has to be V.90.  The V.34 standard was initially
>>up to 28800, and then they revised the standard to make it work up to
>>33600.  V.90 works in a different manner to V.34 and requires more from
>>your phone line in order to work, such as relatively flat frequency
>>response - I think that is where you get into trouble when a line is
>>used for DSL.  V.34 can compensate for many problems on a phone line
>>that V.90 can not cope with at all.

 PP> Well, live and learn.

 PP> Now, any idea why I can't get more than 28800 now? I've never
 PP> seen thirty-anything since that fateful day last August when
 PP> it dropped to 28800.

that's pretty much exactly what i'm looking at, too... i should be
archiving this thread for future use...

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