way. 16.8Kbps (ITU-T V.34 protocol) This is the minimum speed that most V.34 modems will actually be able to connect at on a minimally specified line. That means if the modem _can_ get this speed, the line *must* be within specs. This is also the upper limit for connections through various types of digital carrier systems that use ADPCM or 32K bits per channel instead of standard 64Kbps PCM encoding. Due