snipped-for-privacy@bbs.cpcn.com wrote on the topic of Speed Dials:
TELECOM Digest Editor noted in response to Lisa Hancock:
I tried an experiment once with a Hayes modem and tone dialing. I kept setting the 'dialing speed' faster and faster on the modem so that eventually, instead of getting a faster and faster 'beep, beep, bloop' sound as it was 'dialing' or toning out its signal it got to where the modem was 'toning out' its signal in just two or three seconds total. Central office was still able to keep up with that pace on the touchtone speed, but then I set the modem to get it all out in about one or two seconds -- just an audible blur, no way for the naked ear to make anything out of it -- and then about half the time, my call 'could not be completed as dialed'. If I slowed it down just a pinch, so that ten digits still reached the central office in about three or four seconds, it always heard me and made the right connection. I did _not_ think touch tone signals could be interpreted that fast, but on ESS I guess they can be.
PAT