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Article #318Re: Homehighway
From: Peter Ceresole
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 00:00
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In article <1dfpypm.1s99uwsjkicx8N@roxley.demon.co.uk>, mark@roxley.demon.co.uk (Mark Etherington) wrote: >You can get ISDN Terminal Adaptors which connect to the serial port as a >modem would. I believe they don't allow for as much throughput as an >ISDN card, but they are considerably cheaper. As a matter of interest; as ISDN tops out at 128KBps (assuming you use both channels) and there is no compression standard for it, and most Macs these days can talk to devices on the serial port at 230Kbps, wouldn't the "TA modems" in practice be just as good? -- Peter
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