[H-GEN] RE: RH PPP Dialer & initialisation string!

[Steve]

> > My modem is as slow as a wet week but Telstra advise that they will not
> > guarantee more than 28.8 K, others appear to have been told 14.4 K, 9.6
> > K and 2400 bit.
> 
> They guarantee a baud rate, not a bit rate. I believe the figure they assure
> is 2400 baud.

This is surprising, I thought the garunteed baudrate was 300bps.

On a happier note, help is at hand.

(please take into account, this is secondhand, unverified information, please
don't kill me if I'm wrong here)

Optus cable is now offering phone lines through the cable system, you can get
optus cable tv (this is all free to air, and a specific list of channels,
not including the movie channels) AND a phone line for $20/month. Additional
phone lines are $13/month. This is with 22c calls, I think you pay another 
$5/month for 17.5c calls (again don't quote me, check out optus webpages).

The phone system is analogue only to the cable box. From then on its a digital
connection. This means connection speeds upwards of 53000 are possible. I
heard tales of 54000 and 54666 connections using this service. Apparently the
lines are very stable.

I also heard tale of DTMF tones being misinterpreted due to bad communication
becuase the person was near the end of the cable run. (This would cause 
consistant misdialings. 3373 would consistantly be interpreted as 33773 etc.)

Steve.
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