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CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:462ED5C1.EEB107A@yahoo.com: 

> thanatoid wrote:
>> CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.com> wrote in
>>
> ... snip about modems ...
>>>
>>> Not so.  The bit rate can seriously exceed 56k.  You will
>>> also find that such things as .zip files do not achieve
>>> this.
>> 
>> I realize whether the data transmitted is raw, zipped,
>> rar'd, yEnc'd or mimed doesn't matter, but I do not
>> believe bitrate can exceed 56KB (if that) - and most of
>> the others in the thread seem to feel the same way.
> 
> But it does matter, highly.

No it does not. If a modem can only receive 25kb per second due 
to whatever reasons, it does NOT matter whether that 25kb is raw 
text or a zipped file. It will do whatever compression it can, 
and give you whatever amount of data it can handle.

> Your modem may not do
> compression,

Even my nearly 10 year old modem does compression. As I said, 
all modem protocols except the very earliest ones - before they 
started using the term bps because at the time baud was more 
accurate and realistic - use compression. Mine only gives me the 
option to turn off IPX header compression. I don't even know 
what that means, it's NOT turned off, and everything works fine.

> or may be configured to avoid it.

Huh?

> Zipped
> files are already highly compressed, and cannot be much
> further processed. 

I an aware of the fact you can drink water but not sand, thank 
you.


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