Re: 56 kbps modems

[craigw@dg.ce.com.au]

well here in Australia Telstra our national carrier only "garantees" 
2400 baud to work. I live within 2km of the exchange and the best I 
have ever achieved was 22k/sec over the lines (usually about 18k). 
This is not what the modem tells you it is doing....but what you get 
as a result of testing the ACTUAL modem speed using a line analizer 
program. What a modem manufacturer says you get and what the line 
gives you are Totaly separate.


> People who seemed to know used to say that 'the Shannon limit'
>set an absolute upper limit around 40 kbps. Has Shannon been
>proven wrong, or what?

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