On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, at 9:58pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I bet today's modem's have similar issues. Is there a market for
> upscale modems? Like the old USR Courier that could do 19,200 when
> 14,4 was the fastest speed?
I think the market for such modems has largely been eliminated. People
want modems to be cheap, and people who care about such things want
something better than a modem. The fact that 56 kilobits is the theoretical
maximum bandwidth of a POTS[1] line also means there isn't much room for
improvement.
Footnotes
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[1] Plain Old Telephone Service. The technical term (really!) for what
most people think is the only kind of phone line.
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Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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