It has an Analog MODEM for status reports, which talks to the Service Company via a simple POTS 2 wire pipe. The MODEM is an external US Robotics 56KBPS X2.
I think there's a tendency these days for people to have a quest for speed even in applications which just don't warrant it. (Although it's not helped by some of the horrendous protocols which involve transferring vast numbers of bytes for very little actual useful data.....
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One of my computer/software contracts is for the local taxi company. Being a rural area which goes very quiet at night, they transfer dispatch operations to the owner's home all but Friday and Saturday evenings. At the moment, the entire bookings database ZIPs to about 50KB on average, and is tranferred over a simple dial-up link at 9600 bps. Slow by current standards, but perfectly adequate for the application, and only takes a few seconds to complete the transfer.
On a related issue over cable types, we're just seeing ADSL rolling out around here, so I've had a few installs.
Why do some folk insist that the cable from the TelCo's network interface to their ADSL jacks "absolutely must" be CAT5?
Where I live we're already running through almost 5 miles of assorted telephone cables just to get here from the central office, and some of that stuff is decades old multi-pair cable, long before CAT5, CAT3, or CAT-anything else was ever dreamed about.
Do they really think that after 5 miles of regular old telephone cable that running the last 25 ft. in CAT5 is going to make a difference?
