From: "Mercyful Fate" 

$ Gary Perkins mentioned . .
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> I believe with the 56k technology, you needed a special connection from the
> ISP to the phone company.  This is one reason why you could never get as go
> a connection from a regular modem to regular modem.
> 
> As for sucky connections, it depended on line conditions.  For years I
> couldn't get decent connections due to a fault somewhere in my block...like
> others, we put out countless calls.  At some point something finally got
> fixed, and I could get those stellar 45-48k connections.

Yeah i loved my Zoom 65k Flex, i had a USR 28.8, but it never worked above
28.8 even after i flashed it for X2.. i ended up throwing that thing out, it
was so iffy at times if it was going to drop calls..  When i comes to line
quality though i know your pain.  My house wiring back then was pretty old, ie
70's.. and when it would rain, there would be constant buzzin during the
sumemr time,, i had to get my person line ran seperate from the house and run
through the storm window in the basement..  :)  The good ol day, if soemthign
wasn't working right,, then you wern't doing anything at all..  hehe

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