Hi Mike:
->> MF> On may 31st, Pacific bell is changing the switchboard in
->> MF> my town from an older analog board to a DMS-100.
 MF> How much worse are your connection speeds now than they
 MF> were before the digital switch was put in?
Dialing a local BBS with same prefix as mine: FAAXBBS (209)226-7162)
Old analog ESS    SPEED = 33600RCV/33600SND
New digital ESS   SPEED = 31200/31200 (RECEIVE/SEND) (Current Speed).
Dialing other local BBS's also using USR V34+ modems but -not- in
same swithing office yeilded 28800/26400.
Current speed Fresno to Youngstown, Ohio: Rusty-N-Edie's BBS =
a rock-solid 26400/26400, resulting in 3050cps download averages.
330-726-3628
Current speed (Fresno to U.S.R. BBS} using x2 (847-982-5092) =
44000/24000... Very good receiving, very poor transmitting.,
average dl speed is in high 4000's cps.
 MF> Well, maybe SBC will shapen up the company.
U.S.West now owns all of Continental Cable in the U.S.!
Continental's new name: MediaOne. Promising Fresno area residents
Broadband service within a year, and local dialtone sometime later.
Look too, in the future for satelite phone service! A worldwide
consortium planning to deploy 66 satelites for phone service
anywhere in the world, succeeded in placing 5 of them in orbit
a week or two ago.
James L. Cole Fresno, Calif.
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