Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: London England and modem speeds
Keywords: How fast can they be? Problems?
Message-ID: <12308@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 5 Oct 88 14:33:57 GMT
References: <311@hrc.UUCP> <41536@pyramid.pyramid.com> <2556@sultra.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <2556@sultra.UUCP> dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan) writes:

| 	4.  Ireland is currently switching over to a digital system.  Some of
| 	    the larger cities are now digital, and the clarity is pretty good.
| 	    Some of the others, however, are probably using cans!  If possible,
| 	    make the connection to a large metropolitan area.

  One of the people locally tells me that they had two weeks of really
bad connections to their middle east office, although the connections
were usually good. It seems that the operator was sick and the
replacement operator kept listening in to see if the call was done.
Perhaps the relay switches taken out of Ireland will go to some of the
really bad places in the world.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
  {uunet | philabs}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me