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I agree, I believe it's the phone line also - I have a 56k modem and 28.8 is
max speed - but I take it to my girlfriends house 6 miles away and - 41K is
common ! (guess I'll have to marry her and move in)
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Bowen <mbowen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Earl Adamy <eadamy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, July 22, 1998 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: The future is here
>Hi Earl,
>
>I also had same problem... I bought a new 3com v.90 56k
>modem and got home installed it and bamm... sucker
>wouldn't run over 28k... 9 times out of 10 it has nothing
>to do with your ISP, modem or PC... It's your phone line.
>I found out that most homes that are 20+ years old have
>copper phone lines running through them. If you tell
>the phone company that you have line noise or something
>have them come out and test the line. By law, the phone
>companies only have to secure your line up to 9600bps
>anything over that consider a bonus. I told the phone
>company this was unacceptable, they said: Go suck a
>lemon, if you want speed, buy an ISDN line (115,000bps)
>These phone companies know that sooner or later we are
>all going to want faster bandwidth and once again, unless
>you have a cable modem we are at the mercy of the
>phone company.
>
>**I'd better shut up, I see folks around here are getting sick
>of non-TradeStation or Easy Language issues, I can't
>blame them, sometimes I wonder what this BB is for **
>Best, Matt
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Earl Adamy <eadamy@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Wednesday, July 22, 1998 4:51 PM
>Subject: Re: The future is here
>
>
>>What is/are multiple CODECS? I too have 56k modem, 56k ISP and max
>connection
>>rate of 28.8.
>>
>>Earl
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: James F. Mazzulla <tagteam@xxxxxxx>
>>To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>Date: Wednesday, July 22, 1998 1:11 PM
>>Subject: Re: The future is here
>>
>>
>>>I doubt it's your modem. Even though I have a 56k Courier,
>>>due to multiple CODECS, my connection rate is still 28.8 at
>>>my office. LOS is still real fast at those rates and, as Joe
>>>P. stated, your ISP is a big factor while modem speed is
>>>more of a minor issue.
>
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