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Technology Stocks : COMS & the Ghost of USRX w/ other STUFF

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To: Moonray who wrote (5478)	9/20/1997 11:40:00 AM
From: jhild	of 22053

Reading further into the article that you posted you will find under how they tested the following: "Note that your modem's initial connection rate (reported back by Windows 95's Dial-Up Networking) is not the same as the transfer rate. For 56-kbps calls, we found that the initial connection rate had very little in common with a modem's throughput speed. Many of the modems we tested would first negotiate the fastest possible connection rate and then immediately fall back to something much lower." I think this may resolve the notion that when I connect I am consistently seeing 50666 or 52000, though my actual "information" throughput may be somewhat less. I think that they could be a little fairer to report 28800 information rates as they are surely less than 28800 in uncompressed transmissions. I think the press likes to get worked up about this stuff, because it makes copy to sell. Another interesting note was that the x2 came into a Total Control Hub while the k56 came into an Ascend Max 4048. Apparently they set up the whole thing in the lab using line emulators so that they were able to eliminate vagaries in telco connections.

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