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by qingcharles 978 days ago
What's crazy is how badly I was waiting to upgrade from X2 to K56Flex just to get the 3kbps, which was like a life-altering speed difference back then!
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guidedlight 978 days ago
3.2kbps is the maximum rate of symbols (i.e. 3200 baud). So K56Flex squeezes one extra bit per symbol.
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philistine 978 days ago
I’ll go to my grave thinking wow 3.2 kilobytes is a good connection!
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