-=> Quoting Dave Steeprow to Robby Dittmann <=-
 DS> the retraining feature was available on the 14.4's also.
It was available, yes. But all the standard required was
that a 14.4 respond to a retrain request, not necessarily
that the 14.4 would ever make one. Most 14.4s were not built
to make retrain requests, so it was basically a non-issue.
 
 > Right now, the biggest limitation to the 288s is the FCC.  They only 
 > require phone companies to maintain FAX lines at 14,400, and voice 
 > and data lines at 9600.  Once 28,800 FAXes start coming out in 
 > quantity, we should start seeing 28,800 phone lines, and throughputs 
 > should jump to 3400cps easily!
 DS> this is probably true, but by the time the FCC gets around to this,
 DS> everyone will probably be using ISDN...(grin).. 
Probably not. Already here in Houston we have in some areas
(alas not here) Cable-Modems available commercially with
Neosoft.Com at a reasonable price. Within a year, TCI
Cablevision has said they plan to offer internet access with
cable-modems. While that doesn't help BBS'ing much, it will
make internet access so many light years ahead of BBS's
currently that the only BBS's to flourish in the long term
will be those who are accessable through the internet.
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