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From: roy@phri (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: Metallic circuits
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Date: 19 Nov 88 19:29:29 GMT
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To update what I said earlier:
> VIR has a modem whch will supposedly do 230 kbps over that line, but we
> havn't gotten it to work at anything faster than 19.2 kbps.

	We tried the VIRs on another loop which is much shorter (we figure
about 2-3000 feet) and it seems to work fine at 144 kbps, but we still
can't get it to work at 230 kbps over any appreciable amount of wire.  VIR
admits that there is a problem with the modem (they have already modified
it a couple of times, although I have no idea what they did to it).  In
fact, on of the engineers at VIR admitted that RAD makes the best modems!
VIR says they will have a redesign of theirs out in a few months which
really should work at 230 kbps over 1-mile loops.

	To be fair, VIR has been very good to us.  They lent us 2 BERTs for
a few weeks so we could test the lines and help us convince NY Tel that
there really was something wrong.
--
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
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"The connector is the network"