Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!dalcs!garfield!john13
From: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 19.2k baud modems
Message-ID: <4310@garfield.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 87 16:26:03 GMT
References: <7403@ccicpg.UUCP> <503@cord.UUCP>
Reply-To: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
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In article <503@cord.UUCP> nsw@cord.UUCP (59455-N Weinstock) writes:
>This modem constantly checks the quality of the line, and adjusts data
>rate accordingly.  It has supposedly been clocked at an average of about
>14Kbps over random long-distance lines.  Pretty impressive.  I would guess
>that if a conditioned line were available, it could probably make 19.2.
>
>My understanding is that this thing works by subdividing the 3KHz voice band
>into a large number of subchannels, and transmitting many bits in "parallel."

I have heard figures of 100K bits/second for modems using this technique, but
I was under the impression you needed the same model on the other end due to
the specialized encoding used. Maybe like you say the Trailblazer will become
the standard.

John
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