🚀 go-pugleaf

Chip Rosenthal (chip@unicom.com) wrote:
> In article <42qk8c$a8n@anarchy.io.com>, Jim McCoy <mccoy@io.com> wrote:
> >Well, sort of.  The current phone system samples signals at a rate of 8 KHz,
> >and so there is a finite limit on how much information can be sent over
> >a signal such as this

> Actually, it's not even "sort of".   It's just plain wrong.  A
> conventional analog phone line has a bandwidth of about 3000Hz.  The
> 8KHz has to do with the sampling rate required to represent this analog
> signal as a digital one.

Sigh.  Next time I will be sure to do less hand-waving over niggling details
and explain everything in more detail than anyone could ever want :)
[Actually I suppose this is the closest there is to a local technogeek
newsgroup so my gross simplification was probably unnecessary...]  

Then again, we should all probably just be glad that no one has taken up
the endless Usenet "baud v. bps" telecom thread given the subject
line.

jim