William Chops Westfield wrote:
> On Aug 13, 2004, at 4:47 PM, Neil Cherry wrote:
>
>> I can't believe people are arguing that it may be possible to do
>> this!

> Yeah, well.  Some of us remember back in the days when the maximum
> speed you could get out of something like 6 miles of bare copper wire
> from the phone company was 19.2kbps.  That's the same sort of
> connection one now gets several megabits of ADSL on.  That WAS the same
> timeframe when people were just starting to figure out ways of getting
> more than 1200bps out of dialup; only about $1000 each for the fancy
> modems.

OK I'll indulge, I remember 110 and if you were lucky 300. I have
2 of those 300/1200 baud modems (manual switch). Pre AT cmd days.
Still the boast of J-Boost goes beyond that and it's free, hmm
too good to be true.

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