18 Jun
2013
18 Jun
'13
8:40 p.m.
On 17 June 2013 16:22, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
A system clearly designed by somebody who thought about the problem and
didn't automatically assume that'newer' or 'higher bit rate' implies
a
faster data transmission.
Good!
-tony
("Why would anyone want to go THAT SLOW
these days,
anyway?").
I visited a dot-comrade today on a farm in the country outside a
coastal city near me. He runs a small business doing industrial
equipment monitoring. His servers dial the factory machines via
ordinary 56kb modems -- but at 300 baud, to my considerable surprise.
The reason is a good one, though, and one I would not have readily
thought of. Modem negotiation is much quicker at such low speeds, and
with only hundreds of bytes to transfer -- if that -- the speeds are
not really an issue. Overall, this significantly lowers call times.