Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!hayes!tnixon
From: tnixon@hayes.uucp (Toby Nixon)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Do US-made modems work in the UK?
Message-ID: <2358@hayes.uucp>
Date: 26 Oct 90 10:57:47 GMT
References: <1990Oct16.133001.271@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk> <2174@hayes.uucp> <2489@root44.co.uk> <2263@hayes.uucp> <34272.2725ee63@ccavax.camb.com>
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In article <34272.2725ee63@ccavax.camb.com>, bruce@ccavax.camb.com
writes: 

> What I am most annoyed at Toby Nixon's company (and all the rest)
> is that the modem manufacturers WON'T BOTHER TO SUPPORT 20 pps.

Well, we've certainly considered it.  However, most countries' 
national regulations, and EIA standard 496-A in the USA, restrict 
pulse rates to between 8 and 11 pulses per second.  Granted, this is 
probably due to the need to work on old step-by-step switches, but 
it IS what the standard says.

Nevertheless, I'll bring up the subject again, using your posting as 
"ammunition".

	-- Toby

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