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From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: 19200bps
Keywords: 19200 bps
Message-ID: <1492@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 6 May 91 03:22:10 GMT
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In article <1991May5.201708.452@cec1.wustl.edu> amc4919@cec2.wustl.edu (Adam M. Costello) writes:
>Would anyone care to speculate how long it will be before we see modems with
>19200 bps physical data rates?  I assume it's being worked on.  Are there any
>rumors floating around?
>AMC

There are already 38K baud connections (direct connect).  I believe that a
normal phone line is physically incapable of carrying more than a few thousand
baud at best, due to bandwidth limitations.  Perhaps when optical connections
become commonplace, the phone companies will be able to afford to consider
restructuring the phone transmission protocols, perhaps selling wider-band
width lines at a premium rate.

But until the phone companies see this as a paying proposition, I doubt
it will happen.

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