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Originally Posted by BSDfan666
But.. I've never seen a dial-up modem exceed 20KB/ps, and the ISA bus could handle a fully saturated link at that rate.
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I can only add an anecdote to this (which of course proves nothing, and at the risk of diverting the thread). My regular modem (I still use dial-up) is the 3COM above; it generally reports connecting (to the other modem) at 44,000 kbps, and extremely rarely at 45333, never higher. I've a good feel for the download speeds I get in practice.
Well, recently I got an ISA USR 56K Sportster modem out of a give-away machine. Stuck it in my main box and tried it. It was connecting at 45333 every time. Wow I thought. Well, not so much, the downloads were noticably slower than with the PCI, and very "jerky". Again, proves nothing, could be a dying ISA modem etc.
And now, back to our regularly scheduled thread ...
