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Article #306Re: Dial-up Modem Speed of 56 Mbps? - Can't believe anyone took this seriously...
From: Strings
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:49
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:49
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> AFAIK, ALL modems except the earliest models ever (300 baud > etc.) use compression to achieve their "rated speeds", this is definitely wrong since you can download zipped files (bz2, 7z) at 50 kbps on a clean line. those types of files cannot be compressed much by v.44. there is no *general* compression algo that can magically compress any file. text, HTML, xls, can be compressed because they are highly redundant i.e. low entropy.
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