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echo: aust_modem
to: Mark Griffiths
from: Russell Brooks
date: 1996-10-27 09:05:44
subject: Re: Modem Questions

TP>> do you get 33.6 connects? All I'm getting is 31.2 to places where my

 TP>> old internal modem would always connect at 33.6.



 RB>> I am also eager to see a 33600 conneect with these Rockwell modems, to

 RB>> another Rockwell and also to a USR Courier.



 RB>> Has any one got access to BOTH a courier AND a Rockwell 33600???

 RB>> Could they please connet both mmodems together with a 1 or 2 metre

 RB>> modular cable and do a line probe with the courier?



 RB>> I wager that the Rockwell will not actually get up to 33600, due to

 RB>> its inferior Trellis code utilization.



 MG> My Uni has a bank of 33.6k Netcomm rack modems.  Almost invariably, I 

 MG> have 



 Your Uni.... Do you mean Griffiths Uni



 MG> connected at 31.2k.  I have chatted with one of the guys in charge of



This seems the norm when connecting a Courier to a Rockwell



 MG> this

 MG> bank, and he reckons that the bank is connected to the exchange with ISDN 

 MG> 

 MG> lines.  I get 33.6k connects 95% of the time to Jabberwocky....



And so you should



 MG> Another problem with these modems is the fact that they do not offer 

 MG> asymmetrical link rates.



Cheap skates



Russell

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