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Hello Jasen - 

CA>> So CIS verified that many users could push a 300 baud
CA>> modem to 450 baud but the 'trick' was the receiving modem
CA>> had to be setup to receive at 450 baud as well. CIS did
CA>> setup a few dialin numbers at 450 baud as a 'test' then
CA>> began to charge more for the 450 access! People dropped
CA>> it's use and it faded back into obscurity. Greed has
CA>> killed off many a good thing. 

JB> Dunno about that, the RBBS-PC BBS software offered that
JB> feature. 

Now that you mention it, I do think I recall some mention of
that on RBBS message systems. Regardless CIS was the only
commercial service I knew of to offer it for dialups and it did
work, I tried it. :-) 

JB> in think its main fade was when 1200bps modems became
JB> popular. 

Quite possibly 1200 could've been 'pushed' but the embedded
code for modems changed and was not a 'brute force polling' and
used fixed rates of transfer. :-\ 

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