Hello Yui,

Monday, November 08, 1999, 6:03:58 AM, you wrote:

YS> Demetri Kolokotronis wrote:
>>
>>Why "external"?

YS>    And USB supports a much higher burst rate over serial
YS> modems.

This rate will be over 56k only if really compressable data is
transferred (text, spreadsheet), and then my serial 56k gives out (in
the best case) ~14k/sec - 3 times the uncompressed rate (~5.5k/s). What
are the numbers for USB modems?

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