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Old 03-22-2023, 12:18 PM   #78
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56K needed a good line and special hardware in a Digital Exchange, a pseudo ISDN mode. 33K was extra compression.
Really 28.8K was the top Analogue speed.

I did have a 56K Modem after 1998 when I moved from the house with ISDN and line was only 900 metres house to exchange, but it was sometimes not even 19.2K. They replaced the cable from house to nearest under pavement box and then it was 28.8K. No ISDN or 56K "analog" because they had run out of space on the shelves to add more interfaces for Digital.
November 2005 I got a microwave link and it was 8Mbps down, 1 Mbps up. We still have it for "landline" phones and backup at 1/2 price since we got the 500Mbps/50Mbps fibre a couple of months ago. Didn't seem worth paying for 1Gbps.

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