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Comment by teach

2 years ago

I'm virtually certain the audio clip that plays when you connect to AOL Dial-Up is not a modem from 1991. To my ear it sounds like a 28.8 or 33.6 modem

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Well, it says connected at 52kbps... and the handshake was pretty short, I think it may be a 56k accelerated handshake that could happen if the line characteristics were similar to a previous call. Not sure if that's in all of x2/kflex/v.90/v.92, but it's in some of them.

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