On 29 Sep 96, Ian Smith wrote to Paul Wankadia --



 PW> Oh...  Do you know if HST is still popular now, what with

 PW> V.34 being just a tad  faster than 16.8k...?

 IS> If you've got users and/or points who live 20 miles out the end of

 IS> scungy old lines (city folks may chuckle), you could do a lot worse

 IS> than offering them HST connects, we hear.



So HST is very tolerant of noisy lines?



 PW> of modem users connect with HST?  Are the olde USR

 PW> dual-standard modems still in popular use?

 IS> In Australia?  Browse your Z3 nodelist segment for HST flags (but not

 IS> V34). There were still a dozen or two listed, last I noticed.



I guess they're rather more popular in Zone 1 and you lost count there? :)



 IS> If you weren't thinking of going as far as a Courier, I expect you

 IS> could find an older HST/DS (HST 16.8k, earlier 14.4k, both plus

 IS> V.32bis) for a reasonable price [just guessing].



DS -- is that Dual Standard? <%-\



 IS> Doubt I'd ever buy an HST-only modem, however cheap, but that bloke up



Would people ever have bought HST-only modems in the past -- was it ever THAT

popular???



 IS> the bush with old lead phonelines going past a dozen electric fences

 IS> might :)  May even work out a cheapish solution in some cases .. if

 IS> you can find one.



Nah...  I just get my tin cans, join 'em up with string and whistle V.34...

BTW what is the "official" description of V.34 (i.e. what
modulation methods

are used, fall-back rates, etc.) ???



Chow.



Junyer Hakker.



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