Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 20:14:32 -0500 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: Stefan Molnar <stefan@exis.net> Cc: Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net>, spork@super-g.com, richard@pegasus.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reliable modems? Message-ID: <199703250114.UAA06420@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Mar 1997 18:16:14 EST." <Pine.LNX.3.91.970324181056.6035C-100000@tarpon.exis.net> References: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970324181056.6035C-100000@tarpon.exis.net>
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> > You need copper for standard Couriers. (However, the local telco long > > ago gave up trying to provide copper, they buried a LiteSpan 2000 in the > > back room... so there's only 50 feet of copper between the modems and > > telco equipment). > > I know, Ma bell tossed in a LiteSpan as well, but the ringer moduals can > overload. That hurts. But all the fiber for the longhauls are fun to > look at. Of course going through all those extra CODECs in the Lightspan/SLIC sort of defeats most of the benifits of having all that fancy digital transmission hardware. You're gonna need digital facilities at the ISP end to have any chance at all at having any of the 56K modem stuff work. louie
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