>>And one of the legacy modems that was connecting to the PM-3 at 28.8
>>is now doing it at 26400 transmit and 4800 recieve! So much for improved
>>compatibility with the Lucent modems.
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>Watch the connect speeds for a while during the connection. One of my
>personal legacy modems (Mac SupraExpress33.6) often starts with the receive
>direction (Portmaster's point-of-view) at 4800 or 7200...but as bytes pass
>that direction it works up to around 24000. So does my legacy early Mac
>Supra 56e (which is the best V.34 modem I have at the house [including the
>Global Village Platinum I lent out recently], but may never become a 56K
>modem--certainly not soon).
Nope, person has been on for over 4 days, still at 4800 xmit.