Control and monitoring of a telecommunication system, and method of setting a modulation method

Using a network in which one master station modem (105) and multiple slave station modem (106,107,108) are physically connected by rudder connection or bus connection with a telecommunication line (121), the measurement result of the S/N ratio between the master station and slave stations is once collected in the master station at the initialization stage, pairs of the modulation method, by which all modems can demodulate at high probability, and transmission voltage are calculated based on this data, and the calculation is transmitted to all slave stations; and at a normal transmission stage, information regarding the coordination and control of the network is transmitted in accordance with this setting. Thus, point to multipoint communication is realized.