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To: RobbRacer who wrote (1244)	9/2/1998 9:59:00 PM
From: William W. Dwyer, Jr.	Respond to of 3216

Rob, Wow! Sounds like you have something. I have 128k ISDN and believe it connects at approx 115,200 or something like that. It seems fast, though, so if you connect at 137k you should notice the increased performance. Good luck with your apparent configuration problem. I notice during the day, though, that my ISDN connection remains solid throughout, but sometimes my backup PC with 56k analog modem drops off on me. Did it two or three times today. I'm waiting (hoping) for ADSL here very soon. Thanks for changing the subject! Good idea. Bill

To: RobbRacer who wrote (1244)	9/3/1998 10:53:00 PM
From: Robert Cohen	Respond to of 3216

You have discovered what I noted 4 or five years ago when I upgraded to ISDN 2B (128K). The limiting factor in most instances is not the pipe between the user and the ISP but rather limitations as a result of the ISP to backbone or server---->backbone------>ISP. Today I performed an experiment. I connected to my ISP via analog 56K modem, actual connection speed 45.3K. I simultaneously had open RT III with a minder window of 35 active Naz stocks, 2 MM windows, 2 TOS, 2 charts, mirc, realaudio audio stream, FTP download at 3.3K. I repeated this 4 or 5 times throughout the day and had no problems with quotes, the audio stream was of excellent quality and FTP download although somewhat slow was adequate. Before upgrading to ISDN, cable modem, ASDL etc. consider where the bottle neck in the network is. For the most part it is not between the user and the ISP. Robert