Modem warning

[Thomas Dowling]

> I will say thought that the thing doesn't seem to be twice as fast as my
> old 14,4 modem. 

Apologies in advance for not having a specific citation to back this up,
but I've read that line noise, varying compression ratios, etc. cause the
majority of 28.8 modem connections to ship bits back and forth in the low-
to mid-20's range.

Thomas ("That new Honeywell 56k modem costs HOW much?!?") Dowling
tdowling at ohiolink.edu