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In article <CwzXiOAFBl7yMwKw@hene.demon.co.uk>
           geoff@hene.demon.co.uk "Geoff" writes:

>I was wondering if anyone knows what are the rated speeds?
>
>My modem (USR 33k6 voice) occasionally yields 33k6, but 80% of the time
>it goes at 31k2.

I presume you are referring to the initial reported connect speed. The speed
of a connection can cange after the initisl negotiation and in cases like
this where you are not initally getting full speed, often does.

>Will are the speed spreads of these new modem? If i can up grage my
>modem will I have either ~50k, or 56k?

I don't think anybody really knows yet, at least not in the UK.

>Also will a new UART to be required for the faster speeds to deal with
>the compressed throughput. With a connection at 31k2 I have managed to
>download news from demon at a peak of 10953cps!!!

For that to happen somebody must have pretty much filled a large message
up with spaces, or something similarly redundant. Normal text articles such
as this one compress at generally between 2:1 and 2.5:1 under V.42bis.

You're right though that standard PC serial ports can only be set up to
115200bps.

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