-=> Quoting Michiel van der Vlist to Leonard Erickson <=-

 > And since the limit for a "voice line" is that of an ISDN B
 > channel,I'd say limiting your program to 64000 is more than
 > adequate.

 MvdV> You saying that adequately shows my point. An upper limit /must/ be
 MvdV> specified or else we will again see applications come to light that
 MvdV> fall short of reality. 
 MvdV> I sat that because you are wrong. One can combine two B channels to
 MvdV> achieve 128 kb/s. It is regularly done and some time ago there was
 MvdV> even discussion about the usefulness of introducing a flag or a set of
 MvdV> flags for this capability. 

But that requires making *two* simultaneous calls. To different
numbers, which require seperate nodelist entries. 

You can do the exact same thing with an obscure brand of modems.
They'll give you 67.2k between two of them, or 112k between one of them
and an ISP with compatible gear. Again, the trick is using two phone
lines. 

 MvdV> How about IP connections? Speeds of up to 100Mb/s are conceivable.

Frankly, the "properties" of IP links are such that if we are going to
have them in the same nodelist as analog systems we really need to
revise things so that the formats are *different* for the two types of
systems, rather than trying to kludge them into the same format. 

Right now we are in a sort of messed up interim. 
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