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In article <876776958.0024443.0@office.demon.net>, clive@demon.net
writes
>Malcolm was being simplistic. Perhaps the situation is:
>
>    Standard:   range 990 to 1010   (20 units)
>    Ascend Max: range 985 to 1015   (30 units)
>    Ascend TNT: range 972 to 1012   (40 units)
>    Some particular modem: 1014
>
>So we will have *improved* things and still there will be problems.
If my interpretation of your table is correct, the Ascend Max had a
range that stretched from 5 below the standard to 5 above and the new
Ascend TNT has a range that stretches 18 below the standard but only 2
above.

Would it not have been preferable to install new equipment which had an
equal range above and below the standard - i.e. 980 to 1020, thus (as
you say) improving things by extending the overall range but without
running the risk that many of your customers' modems which operated
close to the extremes of the old Ascend's range could no longer operate
satisfactorily within the downward shifted range of the new Ascends.

Demon customers may find a visit to

www.wallaby.ascend.com.au

I would have liked to but yet again suffered 0cps virtually as soon as I
arrived there.
-- 
David Pipes
david@plusone.demon.co.uk