Hello Paul,

On Sep 23 20:40 in a msg to Ian Smith, Paul Wankadia of 3:640/772.3 wrote:

 PW> protocols such as HS/Link, Bimodem, etc. would be severely
 PW> disadvantaged (to the point of being useless) over HST?
 IS> Yep, that's about right.  Same with Janus and Hydra protocols too.

 PW> Oh...  Do you know if HST is still popular now, what with V.34
 PW> being just a tad  faster than 16.8k...?  If so, can you guess
 PW> what sort of percentage of modem users connect with HST?  Are the
 PW> olde USR dual-standard modems still in popular use?

I have a node (hi Steve!) that connects HST for certain types of out-going
mail; connect time is significantly faster, and for small packets, the
whole lot can be sent in about the time it takes to negotiate a v.34 call,
and set up the session.

Cheers,
Poe

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