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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!mr.net!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!news.maxwell.syr.edu!syix.com!bad-news.harborcom.net!ns2.harborcom.net!mfisher From: mfisher@harborcom.net Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: USR x2 modems??? Date: 14 Mar 1997 04:17:35 GMT Organization: Harbor Communications Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5gajgv$70m$1@bad-news.harborcom.net> References: <5g9l1e$hs8@newsops.execpc.com> <Pine.BSF.3.91.970313151623.7093Q-100000@dolphin.inna.net> <slrn5igpc5.l2.jason@verdi.jlc.net> <Pine.BSF.3.91.970313155449.7093S-100000@dolphin.inna.net> <5g9vs6$n30@newsops.execpc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ns2.harborcom.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36983 Scott Thomason <scotthom@execpc.com> wrote: :> From everything I can see happening, x2 seems to be the technology :> that will prevail. Consumers are buying them. ISPs everywhere are :> rolling them out as we speak. My ISP has explicitly stated they will :> NOT support Lucent or Rockwell standards. My ISP has explicitly stated that it will never support the USR technology, choosing instead to support the (better) Lucent/Rockwell K56flex...which may not happen for the reason that the phone lines in the area are currently lacking the quality to sustain anything close to this. On a slight tangent, it was released in the German CeBIT trade show that Hayes will be releasing a modem that goes 56k downstream and 45k upstream...it will be using a protocol compatible with the K56Flex. Hayes will also be buying Cardinal, so there is another company going away from USR. The USR x2 technology will probably be another HST, available only to USR customers. -- Mike