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Rebecca and Rowland <real-address-in-sig@flur.bltigibbet> wrote:

> Paul Womar <{$PW$}@pwomar.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Rebecca and Rowland <real-address-in-sig@flur.bltigibbet> wrote:
> > 
> > > Bruce Horrocks <bh@granby.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > > 
> > > [snip]
> > > > Nearly, but not quite in that although the maximum speed might be the
> > > > same, the latency of a TA will be slightly higher.
> > > 
> > > Why?
> > 
> > I guess you've got a bit of more digital jiggery pokery (technical term)
> > going on, your mac converts the data to a serial stream, the TA converts
> > it to ISDNish and sends it, if it's a PCI card you have a card on the
> > PCI bus that just converts it to ISDNish,
> 
> Hmm...  But ISDN *is* a serial data stream, isn't it?

I guess it would have to be of sorts but you probably have to convert
between the types of encoding.

> > I know that proably doesn't
> > explain a thing but I've seen it reported several times.
> 
> It's not that I'm doubting the fact that it happens; I just can't see
> any reason for it.

I've left the quotes in and added uk.telecom to the newsgroups, I'm sure
someone there knows, something similar was discussed there or in
demon.tech.modems recently but it wasn't too clear for me.

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