On Oct 01 11:22 96, Paul Wankadia of 3:640/772.3 wrote:

PW> 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.

PW> So HST is very tolerant of noisy lines?

Yes.  VERY.

PW>> of modem users connect with HST?  Are the olde USR
PW>> dual-standard modems still in popular use?

V-Everything has HST.  It's the current delivered model.

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.

PW> 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].

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

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

PW> Would people ever have bought HST-only modems in the past -- was it ever 
PW> THAT popular???

Yep.  Once.

Regards,
Dave Hatch.

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