Talk:56k modem

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[edit] Is 56 kbit/s really the fastest?

Have there been any laboratory experiments with faster rates over phone lines? - Theaveng 12:22, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

It depends what you consider to be a phone line. Copper phone pairs can carry far more than 56K and indeed to in many parts of the world (see DSL), the 56K limit comes from the structure of the modern digital phone systems. Plugwash 13:21, 29 September 2007 (UTC)