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Article #318Re: Dial-up Modem Speed of 56 Mbps? - Can't believe anyone took this seriously...
From: Noozer
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:38
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:38
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"thanatoid" <waiting@the.exit.invalid> wrote in message news:Xns991CA2F8F87Athanexit@66.250.146.158... > CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.com> wrote in > news:462E51B4.C1DDE988@yahoo.com: > >> "paulmd@efn.org" wrote: >>> On Apr 24, 3:24 am, "Noozer" <dont.s...@me.here> wrote: >>> >> ... snip ... >>>> >>>> ...and 56k modems were regulated to 53k. Also, There is >>>> no easy way to amalgamate all the connections into a >>>> single stream. Just put two 100mbit network cards in a >>>> PC. It won't let you download at 200mbit. It will let you >>>> have two 100mbit streams though. >>> >>> You can never tell in advance who's a troll, and who >>> actually just wants an answer to a wild thought they had. >>> It is an interesting question, in theory. >> >> Besides which 56k modems usually have compression >> techniques added, so they can process communications at >> well over 56k. >> > > AFAIK, ALL modems except the earliest models ever (300 baud > etc.) use compression to achieve their "rated speeds", and no 56 > modem can process anything at a faster speed than 53 or 56 (I > don't know which is correct - see thread - and they're > practically the same anyway). Not true... Take a 1 megabyte file full of zeros and transfer it over a 56k modem... You'll see VERY high throughput. Compression CAN take the data stream faster than the signalling rate. Much of this is moot as dialup data is going the way of the dinosaur. I find it funny that nobody has come up with a CHEAP and SIMPLE modem that does strictly Fax and advanced voice.
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