a new BBS...

[Chris Elmquist]

On Sunday (09/21/2008 at 05:48PM -0600), bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca wrote:
> Jim Leonard wrote:
>>
>> To be fair, if you are lucky enough to qualify for Verizon FIOS, you won't 
>> ever want to use a modem.  30mb/s downstream to the house...
> Umm Upload rate is what ... BBS's send not suck data. ;)

However, you might still want to use a modem if you have a home security
system or a satellite TV receiver...  all of which use an embedded modem
to "phone home".

VoIP (voice over IP) telephony is causing a lot of grief for these legacy
dialup technologies.

Chris

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