On 26 Jan 2002 11:13:35 Christof Lange wrote: >> These modems would be not merely too slow but >> would be completely unusable for the Internet if the ISP rejects any >> connection < 14.4K.
> Is this a wide-spread behaviour of ISPs to reject connections with > low speed? According to the "official" information published by my ISP, "shentel.net", they do not support any connections less than 14.4K. A fact that I can verify from my own personal experience is that "shentel.net" will work just fine with a 2.4K modem. Very slow, but it does in fact work just fine. You just don't know how slow a connection speed an ISP will support until you do some testing for yourself. When an ISP says they don't support something this just usually means that they either don't know how or that they just don't want to help you. The technical support personnel at most ISPs are trained to help only those customers having the equipment and the operating systems and the software which the ISP claims to support. Sam Heywood -- This message sent by BasicLinux
