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To: Peter Ecclesine who wrote (923)2/5/1999 4:13:00 PM
From: Dragonfly  Respond to of 3376
 

No, only in cities. You leave a city and you are out of CDPD range.

Plus, have you ever gotten 19.2kbps out of a CDPD device? Its a misleading number.

If we measured CURRENT metricom modems using the same benchmark, we would say that they are 100kbps modems. That's the raw datarate.

What's more relevant is thruput. I'm not going to pay $65 a month for 2400 baud modem access when I can pay $30 a month for 28,800 baud modem access (soon to be 128,000 buad).

Dragonfly