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To: AreWeThereYet who wrote (9849)	11/8/1997 1:48:00 PM
From: dougjn	Respond to of 45548

What I said was low to mid 40s is what is average attainable. Very hightest reliably I think was 48 or something. Depends on phone line, and switching at telco, as well as distance to first switch. Many variables, actually. Very hard to know beforehand. Keep in mind that connect speed is often not stay connected speed...ie the modem gets noise and cycles down. I also said that 28.8 is worth upgrading from. 33.6 some yes, some no. A lot less dramatic than other modem introductions, eg. from 14.4 to 28.8, where 14.4 is truely marginal for any kind of www quasi graphics, or program file downloads. And...56k is end of the line for modems proper. Beyond that must have digital line. Which is doable over most copper pairs, but requires upstream equipment not in some ISP closet (as in the current modem contrator market that Asnd dominates, but is loosing), but at the first telco switch upline from the customer. (Sometimes requires closer than that, where repeaters, etc. are used.) Pairgain is a leader in this area, coms is not. Yet at least. (Pairgain is building from its basic business which is turning plain old copper pairs into low cost T1 lines for Telcos, who then rent them out to business at outrageous rates.) Coms should perhaps acquire my Pairgain.<g> Regards, Doug