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From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: > 9600 bps over conditioned leased lines?
Message-ID: <464@brl-sem.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 11-Nov-86 13:20:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 11 13:20:00 1986
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In article <2942@cbosgd.ATT.COM>, mark@cbosgd.ATT.COM (Mark Horton) writes:
> I haven't followed it closely, but yesterday a salesperson pointed
> at a TeleByte modem, said the cost was $3500 each, and that it did
> 19.2K over regular dialup lines.  Part of this is probably done with
> data compression, so it may not help your application.

Once again, as pointed out before, some of these cheap and slick data
compressed/error corrected modems are pretty atrocious.  The Telebyte
for instance is damn near unusuable for either normal UNIX use or UUCP
as it is really half duplex and takes forever to turn the line around.

-Ron