Brent Reynolds wrote:
>
> Well, your example of that supposedly wonderful, fast 56K modem that only
> gave you a 28.8 connection just proves what I've been telling people for a
> year, the dirty little secret that 3Com (US Robotics) doesn't want you to
> remember. US Robotics tried one more time to get everybody to adopt a
> proprietary protocol, this time, their own X2 protocol as the standard.
> Motorola, Rockwell, and Lucent Technologies were backing the K56-Flex
> standard instead. Eighty-plus percent of the Internet ISP's also went with
> the more stable, more reliable, less flaky K56-Flex implementation. Since
> the 33.6K V.34-Plus was only semi-official as a standard, it was implemented
> slightly differently by different manufacturers. Therefore, you probably
> connected a V.90 modem to an ISP's modem that does not yet support V.90.
> Some ISP's are deliberately slow to upgrade, you know, waiting for them to
> get the bugs out. YOur Note, all this is assuming you have a good phone
> connection on this hypothetical call, which you may not have had. Since
> both modems did not do V.90, your US Robotics speed demon tried its next
> protocol down the list, X2. The other guy, maybe was a K56-Flex modem, so
> they still couldn't talk. US Robotics' V.34-Plus 33.6K implementation was a
> little different, so the highest thing everybody understood was the official
> V.34 28.8K standard and that's exactly what you got! There was probably
> nothing at all wrong with that first US Robotics modem you had. It did
> everything it was designed to do, exactly as it was designed to do it. The
> best modem for the price is not a 3Comm US Robotics product, but the Diamond
> Supra Express v.90 series, either external, or internal. It has a larger
> internal send and receive buffer, wider bandwidth capability, and better
> stability under less than optimal phone line conditions. It steps through
> V.90, K56-Flex, V.34-Plus, and V.34, and can go lower if it's needed.
>
> The US Robotics products are good, and all of them made since the end of
> February, 1997 have an unconditional five-year warranty, like the Courrier
> series has always had. This also applies to the Sportsters, and MegaHertz
> models made by 3Comm.
>
> Incidentally, the 28.8K internal sportster modems and the 33.6K ones justly
> earned a reputation for being garbage because of buggy software in the ROM
> and flash ROM chips, which went through many "updates" without being
> resolved.
>
> Remember guys! The ads you see on television are what the company payed
> somebody else to say, not necessarily so in real life.
>
> Reply to: [log in to unmask]
> Brent Reynolds, Atlanta, GA USA
>
> "Modem," said the gardener when he'd finished the lawn.
>
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Hi Brent:
My ISP claims to support V90 X2 and all that. Has anyone known an
ISP to tell the truth every time though? My only position
is why waste time with all this modem stuff when CABLE MODEM
is a better solution if it works the way they tell us, you know.
As far as USR technical support it's was like almost all the rest,
terrible as far as my dealing with them was.
Michael
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