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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!newspump.sol.net!posts.execpc.com!usenet From: scotthom@execpc.com (Scott Thomason) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: USR x2 modems??? Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 22:41:43 GMT Organization: Exec-PC BBS Internet - Milwaukee, WI Lines: 13 Message-ID: <5g9vs6$n30@newsops.execpc.com> References: <5g9l1e$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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lamed.execpc.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37040 Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net> wrote: >Even at 53k, they weren't meeting FCC spec last I heard, and you're >right, it's 3com. 3com is planning on using the Lucent/Rockwell >technology. I expect X2 to die of obscurity, as it should. 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. Why do you expect it to die?