Indeed it's wild. Didn't mention in my orig. post but at the ESC demo Ewing made the point that given the various overheads typical performance is closer to 10

Indeed it's wild. Didn't mention in my orig. post but at the ESC demo Ewing made the point that given the various overheads typical performance is closer to 100 kbps and bursty FWIW. Still fast compared to my first POTS modem which ran at 2.4 kbps.