That phone line power law sounds strange - why does the FCC get to regulate how much power gets put on a POTS line. It's not getting radiated (at least, not much). How does the courier know how much power to put out? I have one. :)
On 10/21/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Adeff wrote: > > >I have a USRobotics Courier 56K external modem that I believe is in my > >parents > >garage. It's prbly the best analog phone line modem ever made. I used to > >routinely transfer at rates far above 56K even when people were saying it was > >impossible to even connect at 56K (as did a few of my friends who also had > >this modem), and this is using the correct bit/byte/Kb math conversions. > > > > > And compression. Note that--at least in the US and Canada--it is > impossible to connect at > 53k, even when using a 56k modem. The > problem is not the modem but the fact that transmitting at speeds > greater the 53k requires more power than the FCC (and whomever makes > these rules for Canada) allows on phone lines. > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
