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Re: Dial-up Modem Speed of 56 Mbps? - Can't believe anyone took this seriously...

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From: CBFalconer
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:14

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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.  Your modem may not do compression, or
may be configured to avoid it.  Zipped files are already highly
compressed, and cannot be much further processed.

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