On Sunday (09/21/2008 at 05:48PM -0600), bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca wrote:
Jim Leonard wrote:
To be fair, if you are lucky enough to qualify for Verizon FIOS, you won't
ever want to use a modem. 30mb/s downstream to the house...
Umm Upload rate is
what ... BBS's send not suck data. ;)
However, you might still want to use a modem if you have a home security
system or a satellite TV receiver... all of which use an embedded modem
to "phone home".
VoIP (voice over IP) telephony is causing a lot of grief for these legacy
dialup technologies.
Chris
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