Re: Rockwell's 56K is vapor

Jacob Suter (jsuter@intrastar.net)
Wed, 2 Oct 1996 16:28:05 -0500

.> While all of this is very illuminating, the trick that is probably
> being used is to use an amplitude modulated signal which the
> same number of levels as the telco A-D conversion and which is
exactly
> time synchronized with the telco. None of this violates the
> rules above. The amount of noise and distortion will lower the
> data rate slightly (in accordance with the laws above). I suspect
> the units will have error detect/correct capability so errors will
> cause transparent retransmits just like the current modems do.

I lived with bad lines long enough to know one thing... 2400 baud is
faster than a 14.4k resending data constantly..

It'd HAVE to be able to auto-drop its connect rate down to a more
reasonable level.

JS