Russell, at 08:59 on Mar 30 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

RB> Was it Paul who said something to the effect of..." Buying a USR
RB> to do 33600 connects and 3900+ Cps,

It's 4000 cps actually, but then you already know that.  :)

RB> is not worth the $200 over the top of buying a Netcomm 28800..... It would 
RB> take years to pay off

Yes, it was indeed Paul Edwards who said that.

RB> Well I have just done some tests with two indentical Couriers linked 
RB> together with a 2 metre cable (transferring at 33600 then 28800)

RB> File 300teru.zip     1432681 bytes
RB> 33600\33600 connect  3883cps      time 6 min 10 sec
RB> 28800\28800 connect  3329cps      time 7 min 15 sec

Why only 3883 cps with the 33600 bps connect?  That's a bit slow.

RB> You save one full minute on a 1.4meg file.

True.

RB> And if you are doing this on anything but a local call, then
RB> these minutes add up (specially at say, $1 per minute)

True again.

RB> Saving a dollar a minute is significant to me.
RB> 200 minutes and you have bought your courier.
RB> Even at 50c a minute, it is nothing to sneeze at.

Nice little exercise, but I don't think that Paul makes too many outbound
calls, and certainly very little in the way of STD stuff.  Of course, the
same would still apply to his inbound STD and ISD callers.  Good point
though.

Regards, Bill

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