From: "Gary Perkins"    
      
          
    > yeah i remember one bbs in my area got conencts like that as well, but no   
    > others would.. i can't remember if it was a dedicated loop or something   
    > special.. but most other bbses i could never get above 28,8/336..   
      
   I believe with the 56k technology, you needed a special connection from the   
   ISP to the phone company.  This is one reason why you could never get as good   
   a connection from a regular modem to regular modem.   
      
   As for sucky connections, it depended on line conditions.  For years I   
   couldn't get decent connections due to a fault somewhere in my block...like   
   others, we put out countless calls.  At some point something finally got   
   fixed, and I could get those stellar 45-48k connections.   
      
   --- Internet Rex 2.29   
    * Origin: The gateway at Diskshop BBS (1:250/8)