Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Trans-atlantic uucp with Telebit modem Message-ID: <3881@phri.UUCP> Date: 21 Jul 89 00:27:26 GMT References: <265@hhb.UUCP> <1989Jul19.160009.18318@utzoo.uucp> Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 15 > 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. I'll add another data point. Cuernavaca, Mexico to New York City. The Mexican phone system doesn't seem to have discovered echo supressors (it takes a lot of concious effort to carry on a voice conversation when you hear yourself 1/4 second after you say something). The blazers don't seem to notice. Microcomm SX-9624s (I think that's the right part number) with MNP level 5 could barely keep a connection open. -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 {att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy -or- roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu "The connector is the network"