Re: (PM) Long phone lines: X2 works, K56Flex doesn't??

Miquel van Smoorenburg (list-portmaster-users@news.cistron.nl)
7 Feb 1998 13:20:33 +0100

In article <199802070123.UAA26702@saint.heaven.net>,
Dick St.Peters <stpeters@NetHeaven.com> wrote:
>Tuesday a new signup (call him Mike) with a Supra 56k and called to
>complain he couldn't get a flex connect. MapQuest says he's at the
>end of a 15-mile phone line (!), so I gave my spiel about how long
>phone lines don't work for 56k so he's SOL.
>
>An hour or so later I got an email from a guy saying he lives across
>the street from Mike and connects to his ISP with X2.

Well, perhaps their lines are different - let them swap modems and see
if the K56Flex modem works at Mikes friends' house.

Mike.

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