From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 06:10:21 +0800
To: Alan Olsen <jkwilli2@unity.ncsu.edu>
Subject: Re: bugged?
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>Sounds like he has a 56k modem and his ISP just upgraded to the same sort
>of 56k modem he has.  That is part of the protocol negotiation.  (In the
>future, it will take 30 minutes to finish connecting with a modem, but we
>will all get 666k transmission speed over normal phone lines.)

Yeah.  Credit-card verification terminals and similar devices are typically
locked into some low speed, 300 baud or 1200 or rarely 2400,
because they don't have many characters to send in a standard transaction,
and the slow speeds have a much faster setup/training time, especially
when they don't have to adaptively negotiate a connection speed.
				Thanks! 
					Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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