Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Trans-atlantic uucp with Telebit modem
Message-ID: <1989Jul19.160009.18318@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <265@hhb.UUCP> <BOB.89Jul18094133@tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 89 16:00:09 GMT

In article <BOB.89Jul18094133@tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu> Bob Sutterfield <bob@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>>   I need to establish a UUCP connection with a site in the U.K...
>
>Trailblazers are legendary for squeezing the last bit of bandwidth
>juice from the worst imaginable lines.  They've been reported to
>deliver good performance from Quito, Ecuador to Miami, Florida.
>They'll probably do you good across the Pond, too, perhaps limited
>most by the local telephone vagaries.

I seem to recall Rick Adams saying that London, England is the one place
on Earth that even a Trailblazer can't connect to reliably.  They will
deliver 4-5kbps dependably in India, where local calls at 300 baud are
impossibly unreliable (!), but not in London.
-- 
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