> Michael Dillon writes:
> > Tiny POP's eh? How about you put one PM2 (10 async ports) out as a POP
> > with a dedicated 33.6kbps (USR Couriers) on one of the ports back to another
> > async port on a local Portmaster. That gives you 9 ports at the POP for
> > customers and you can do it over a 2-wire circuit rather than 4-wire
> > (provided the line quality will sustain 33.6kbps)
>
> Well, first, that 24-hour dialup costs more than a 56k line. This is
> true for either a local business call or any kind of LD call, and for
> the POPs it would be both.
Even if it is a leased 2-wire circuit?
> Second, that 33.6 2-wire feed is half duplex, so the modems have to
> turnaround for every packet(s)/ack.
Last I checked (in the v.32bis days) every modem protocol faster than
2400 bps was a FULL-duplex protocol except for HST. Are you sure that
v.34 isn't also FULL-duplex? The 33.6 is an extended v.34
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