BG> Dave lives about 20 metres from one of Brisbane's most up-to-date
BG> exchanges, but essentially, anything less than a 33600/33600 connect
BG> is due to the bandwidth of the line not being up to scratch.

RS> Nope, anything less than 33600/33600 is due to NORMAL phone line
RS> bandwidths and 33600/33600 is due to EXCEPTIONAL phone line bandwidths
RS> that you have no right whatever to demand your lines must achieve.

BG> Is it too much to ask that our lines function at
BG> a level approaching that of their design limit?

You aint doing that with 33600/33600. The V34 standard wasnt even
supposed to always deliver 28800/28800 on normal real world phone lines.

BG> Personally, I think not.

Welp, you think wrong. The V34 standard was designed to wring
whatever capability happens to be available in the phone line.
There was never any suggestion that real world phone likes were
defective if they couldnt deliver 28800/28800, let alone 33600/33600.

BG> It's 1996, not 1896.

Rhetoric Bill.

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