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In article <30d4e5f8.4140576@newsreader.digex.net>,
David W Landram <daveland@access.digex.net> wrote:
>For your information, Digex has announced to its customers that it will
>be implementing an alternative technology.  As a Digex customer, I am
>pleased with this positive approach to improving service.  The icing on
>the cake is that we may now be spared these self-serving statements by
>competing ISPs and telecom "experts" telling us what *cannot* be done.
>
>-- Dave


Dave, you might call it self-serving, but I have been in this line of 
work (and electronics in general) for the past 20 years.  Self-serving
or not, you can't change fact!  The bottom line is that Bell Atlantic
as of this point in time WILL NOT guarantee you a 28.8K connection, and
nobody (ISP or otherwise) in there right mind would make such and offer
when they have no control over the phone lines where there signal will
be transported.


>On Sun, 17 Dec 1995 21:51:13 GMT, howardl@abs.net (Howard D. Leadmon)
>wrote:
>
>>In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.951217101800.5031B-100000@access5.digex.net>,
>>John McGing  <jmcging@access.digex.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>Why in ghods name would any service install modems capable of 28.8 if it 
>>>wasn't their intent to provide 28.8 service?  The legitimate customer 
>>>assumption to being told that a POP has 28.8 modems is that the customer 
>>>can, with their own 28.8 modem make 28.8 connections, line conditions 
>>>being the uncontrollable variable.
>>
>>Just remember that according the the specifications for analog phone lines,
>>which is what the telco's have to adhear to int he overall sense.  You
>>should really only get a 24K connection, and anything above that is a
>>blessing.  It was a known fact when 28.8K modems were released it was
>>pusing the envelope of analog technology.  So unline 14.4K modems, you
>>need in general to be happy with a 24K connection using a 28.8K modem
>>if that is what you get.  Other than that, if you want a faster connect
>>speed all the time, BellAtl invented something called ISDN...


Why this statement is self-serving is beyond me, as I have nothing to 
gain by speaking up on behalf of Digex.  All I was trying to do was 
explain a couple of the basic rules with which current modem technology
was built around.  Anyway I have made my point and you can take it or 
leave it for what it's worth.  Needless to say since I am NOT a Digex
customer, none of this has any direct effect on me...


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