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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Equal Access and Data Communication
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Date: Fri, 19-Apr-85 12:28:23 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 19 12:28:23 1985
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> Does anyone have any proof that carriers other than
> AT&T are usable for 1200 baud full duplex communications?

	I experimented a while ago with running Bell 212 over Western
Union (Metrophone, I think they call it) lines for uucp stuff.  At the
time we had the old (dial a 7 digit access code, then a 6 digit
authorization code then a 10 digit number) kind of link.  Signal quality
was horrible (unless you restricted your data to { and ~, in which case
it was just fine :-)).

	About a month ago they pulled a dirty trick on me and got
hooked up with equal-access (dial 1 gets you to Metrophone instead of
ATT) and didn't tell anybody for a week or so until after they did it.
Guess what?  I can't tell the difference in either signal quality (using
uucico -x9) or effective baud rate (from uurate).

	I suspect that for some reason, the direct access gives you
better quality service because you have to go through fewer switches.
Anybody know for sure about this?
-- 
allegra!phri!roy (Roy Smith)
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute