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Rupert Thomson <rupert@rthomson.dircon.co.uk> wrote:

> well, i am basing that experience on my GV 33.6 moden too (by the way
> what is the fatest download speed you have achieved with it? i often
> get into 70,000bps+ once i got 84,300bps out of it!)  but other than
> that, i couldnt give you a positive yeah or nay cos i havent used the
> built in modem of a G3 PB.  However, if it uses a similar chipset to
> that of a global village, there wouldnt be the need to change its
> maximum port speed rate cos the 56k is far lower than 155,200bps
> apparent 'limit' (really?) so why would they bother to change it? 
> Well, that could be one reason, anyway.
[snip]

Modems of 14400 bit/s and above support compression of up to 4:1, so a
56K modem can (theoretically) need to squirt data at about 230400 bit/s
down the serial line to your computer.

I've seen over 100,000 bit/s with my GV 33.6 modem (FreePPP 2.5.? (?),
MacTCP 2.0.6, Performa 475, 115200 bit/s serial port, downloading list
off all newsgroups with MacSoup; probably System 7.1, maybe 7.6(.1)).

Rowland.

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