What Is V.92?
What's so great about V. 92? Well, for one thing, it's an ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector standard for modems that enhancements to recommendation V. 90. It emerged in 1999 and allowed 56 Kbps downloads and 48 Kbps uploads. It provides improved error correction capabilities by using a packet loss concealment algorithm (PLC) which helps to reduce the number of errors during transmission over a phone line. It supports a maximum throughput rate of 57,600 bps (bits per second). The connection must be error-free to achieve the highest speeds with V. 92. the modem must "remember" the last few seconds of data received, analyze it, and decide whether or not to try another approach next time. If there is even a single bit of uncorrectable data in the last few seconds, the modem stops the connection and starts again. It is called "hard handshaking". When hard handshaking is enabled, a momentary pause occurs in the relationship when you first start it up. It is normal; once you know that you have a good connection, you can turn off hard handshaking; the V. 92 standard, released in 2001, improved over V. 90. It allowed pulse-code modulation (PCM) for both upstream and downstream connections; V. 90 only allowed this for downstream connections. Despite this improvement, V. 92 still required one analog/digital conversion, and even by 2003, most modems did not support PCM upstream. Two modems supporting PCM upstream, 3Com and Patton, only allowed a maximum upstream rate of 33. 3 Kbps, even less than the maximum V. 34 rate! Did you know that V.44 compression could increase your modem's throughput by 15%? That's half of what it was before. In some cases, depending on how much noise is online and how much data has been compressed, you could be getting as high as 320 Kbps for pure text files and 160 Kbps for uncompressed files!
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