IF (capital if) you believe a dialup line under V.90 with 4-to-1 V.42bis compression is REALLY capable of 213K ... then a V.92 line with 6-to-1 compression can exceed 320k!!! Baloney --- pure hype. No one gets 4-to-1 compression today --- because most information that is bandwidth intensive is ALREADY compressed (JPG, GIF, MP3, MPEG, ZIP). MNP5 (2-to-1 compression) and V.42bis hark back to the days of old mainframes, minicomputers and totally text transmissions. When was the last time you visited a web page that was pure text? or downloaded a program that was not in Zip format? 4 years ago, 5 years ago, 10 years ago? From: "John Scrivner" <john@scrivner.com> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 4:09 AM

Is it true that dialup lines will support 256k speeds without ISDN or DSL in the future? I have doubts about it. I guess I should not repeat rumors when I do not have any way of proving what I say. I do not even know of any technology that could do this in any way. I guess I should think a little before I type an email message.

Rumors can be really bad things and probably should not be repeated. Has anyone been telling you any rumors lately? Have you been telling rumors that maybe were not substantiated? Maybe you should consider the Source before you believe what you hear. Sometimes the Source could seem as powerful as General Patton. Always consider that the Source could be wrong.

My belief is that even Patton could have been brought down if there were rumors being spread about him by a Source that had only their interests in mind. We will all surely succeed just like Patton if we do not listen to, or worse yet, repeat rumors that may have no grounds. John Scrivner

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