>
>I don't need anything even remotely approaching 56K, in fact I would
>prefer a 212A modem.  I've not seen a 1200 connection fail for a long
>time, but V.90 sucks for reliability on anything but clean lines.
>Remember this is a PIC driving it, not me sitting at the keyboard knowing
>that the supposed 40K connection is useless when it doesn't respond.
>These things will dial in once in a great while and send a couple of lines
>of text, so even 1200 is overkill.  300 would do.

If you're doing credit card transactions, anything other than a 212a modem
will just slow them down. The hosts are still 212A because the call
establishment of the higher speed modes takes too long.

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