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  • (Score: 2) by jasassin on Tuesday July 18 2017, @01:01AM (1 child)

    by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Tuesday July 18 2017, @01:01AM (#540674) Homepage Journal

    I'm curious, do you know if the systems you were connecting to had more than 9600 baud modems? For years I had a hell of a time with the connection every time it would rain. By the time they would send someone out, the line would dry out.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Tuesday July 18 2017, @01:38AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 18 2017, @01:38AM (#540685) Journal

    I'm curious, do you know if the systems you were connecting to had more than 9600 baud modems?

    As it happens, yes, I know; they did, also on 14.4kbaud modems.

    For years I had a hell of a time with the connection every time it would rain. By the time they would send someone out, the line would dry out.

    That's the very reason no connection over 9600 was stable. As the infrastructure was out of any of the two sides' control, no attempt was ever made to send someone out, it was well understood it will be useless.

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