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 Message 182 
 Netsurge to All 
 Re: Dial Up Gateway 
 24 Nov 10 16:54:32 
 
From: "Netsurge" 

  Re: Re: Dial Up Gateway
  By: Mercyful Fate to Netsurge on Wed Nov 24 2010 10:46 am

 > yeah i was always confused when the 56k first ame out how all of the bb's i
 > would call with the exception of 1 would be 28,800,  but if i dialed an isp
 > for internet i'd get maybe 32,000, never usually got above that on 56k
 > connections..

56K or the old X2 technology was nothing more than better compression for 36.6
that's why it always showed as connecting at 36.6k

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