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My understanding is there was no way to support full 56k between two analog modems, so one side needed to be digital. In reality, I never saw a 56k connection e
by icedchai 5y ago
My understanding is there was no way to support full 56k between two analog modems, so one side needed to be digital. In reality, I never saw a 56k connection even in that configuration. It was always ~52k or lower, but maybe we just had crappy phone lines around here.
- justinlloyd 5y agoI am recalling getting "insane" speeds during site-to-site warez transfers on the BBS's, upwards of 200kbps a second, capping the CPU on most machines, but we also used shotgunned modems on the main trading hubs, and a packetizing ZModem-like protocol to separate the transfers into 64Kbyte chunks so I am most likely misremembering a number of misadventures and smushing a few of the details together.
- icedchai 5y agoThat seems possible with compression? Most serial ports maxed out at 115,200 bps back in those days.