On 20 Aug 96  18:46:04, Bill Piehler wrote to Russell Brooks:



 > The Telstra local service man is telling me, that there will be big

 > changes coming by the end of the year in our area, Cleveland Exchange

 > BP> area. Then Telstra will be guarantying a speed of 28.8k.

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 >          I'm holding my breath until you get this in writing,

 >                          PLEASE HURRY

 

 >                            Russell



 BP> Yes Russel, that is exactly what I was told by the service man. When I

 BP> asked him how they would implement this, He was talking about a cable

 BP> that will be installed with a box inside the house. He called it Cable

 BP> Modem. When I asked him if it had anything to do with Cable TV we got



That sound right for a cable modem. I've just read on the WWW that

Netcomm cable modem does 500+ kb/s on a decent cable, so they

probably manage 28.8 kb/s on Telstra's :-).



Cheers,

Tom             



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