Re: power books and mobile phones

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From: Ben Lovejoy
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 00:00

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kate@tycho.demon.co.uk (Catherine Ferris) wrote:

>- Do not expext to get the kind of transfer rates that you would from a
>land based line. Mobile phone cariers use compression on the data stream
>that makes a mess of the faster modem standards. I have been lead to
>believe that rates of 14.4 to 19.2 are the best you can expect.

Last time I checked, you couldn't get more than 9.6k. Fine for email, but
don't try any web-browsing!

Ben

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