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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: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:22

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thanatoid wrote:
> CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.com> wrote in
>
... snip ...
>>
>> 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).
> And it achieves that speed by compression. AFAIK, it's just a
> 14.4 or 28.8 (my knowledge fails me here) modem with much better
> compression algorithms and some newer components.

Not so.  The bit rate can seriously exceed 56k.  You will also find
that such things as .zip files do not achieve this.

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