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Re: USR X2 Modems . Do they Work??? Or just hype. HYPE!!

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From: John Navas
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 00:00
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djcarlos@thegrid.net (Denis J. Carlos) wrote:

>I live in a rural are of northern CA, Since I received my x2 upgrade
>(conplete card swap, internal) my connections have never been less
>than 53.3 kbs. (I received mainly 28.8 before, with 31.2 connections
>occuring every 1 of 10 connections)
>
>My dl's are running at 4.5 to 5 kbs up from 3-3.5 kbs. ...

FYI, with that kind of throughout (presumably you mean Kcps, not Kbps) it
is likely that your modem is immediately falling back from a CONNECT at
53.3 to a lower speed of 41.3-46.6.  (At 53.3 your throughput with
compressed data should be about 5.9 Kcps).

p.s.  Please help stop the inappropriate cross-posting of this thread!

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Best regards,
John  mailto:JNavas@NavasGrp.Dublin.CA.US  http://www.aimnet.com/~jnavas/
      28800 Modem FAQ:  http://www.aimnet.com/~jnavas/modem/faq.html
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From: Usenet@NavasGrp.Dublin.CA.US (John Navas)
Subject: Re: USR X2 Modems . Do they Work??? Or just hype.  HYPE!!
Date: 1997/05/28
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