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In article <avalon.717265419@coombs>, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) writes:
|> Just as a question (althought it maybe a silly one), is it possible to
|> get different speed on the to-australia side of the link than on the
|> from-australia ?  (Somewhat similar to the 1200/75 baud modems from
|> some years back). 


!!!!!

No.

|> The reason I ask that whenever an upgrade is done,
|> it is usually described as being "two half-circuits" which seems to
|> suggest this may be possible (maybe the link could lean to 256/768
|> kbit ? (considering that the inside is only going at 50% capacity))

The half refers to the way in which international communications links
are purchased. We (AARNet/AVCC) buy a "half-circuit" from OTC (now
AOTC) and someone else in the United States also buys a "half-circuit"
from whichever carriers have arrangements to do links with OTC. Thus
we pay some very large number of Australian dollars per month to OTC,
and in the US someone pays (in our case) WorldCom a smaller number
of US dollars per month. We end up with a full-duplex circuit between
two end points.

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