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Technology Stocks : Data Race (NASDAQ: RACE) NEWS! 2 voice/data/fax: ONE LINE!
RACE 333.51-1.1%Jan 28 3:59 PM EST
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To: Ignacio Mosqueira who wrote (27840)2/12/1998 3:12:00 AM
From: Marshall  Read Replies (1) of 33268
 
When the only thing between you and the corporate LAN is an everyday phone line which seems to carry voice in an uninterrupted manner you could expect much the same reliability over a straight modem connection through the same PSTN. About the only latency one would experience would be due to modem polling in the RAS itself.

You know, most people think just because their modem is connected to their ISP at 28.8K or 33.6K or whatever K that they are getting that off the internet but they rarely are. A "weakest link" situation applies here as well as the additive effects of delays in transporting data through a complex system of routers and trunk lines.

These past 2+ weeks have been a mess getting to the West coast through most of the internet trunks. You see - whenever one major NAP is working on something or has troubles (such as MCI getting a MAJOR fiber link cut last weekend) the traffic still continues but it does so by them re-routing it onto alternate routes. While the backbone providers try to keep one step ahead of their usual traffic load adding others' traffic can cause quite a few problems.
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