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- Path: FreeNet.Carleton.CA!an171
- From: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: V.34 Compatibility Flim-Flam & Bullshit
- Date: 9 Apr 1996 04:11:29 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- Sender: an171@freenet5.carleton.ca (Anthony Hill)
- Message-ID: <4kco1h$2f3@freenet-news.carleton.ca>
- References: <4kbkc6$4c0@news1.mnsinc.com>
- Reply-To: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
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- David Allen (allent@mnsinc.com) writes:
- > It's been almost TWO YEARS not since the V34 standard has been
-
- Actualy, it's only been a bit over a year an a half since the
- recommendation was approved.
-
- > finalized and the Rockwell/ATT incompatibilities which the Companies
- > and "Experts" said would be taken care of in firmware and flash
-
- In most cases these problems HAVE been fixed.. But it doesn't do
- any good for a company to release new code if the users don't get their
- new EPROM chips. I'm sure there are a LOT of 28.8 modems out there that
- are still running on circa '94 code.
-
- > upgrades have yet to materialize. Given that ISDN is poised to come
- > rushing in, V34 owners ought to give up on waiting.
-
- ISDN has been poised to come rushing in for the past 5 or 6 years
- now... It still costs about 3 times the amount of a regular analog phone
- line here, and this is after a fairly recent drop in the price for ISDN.
- Also there's the slight matter that if I got an ISDN line I'd need to keep
- a modem anyway since there's hardly anyone running ISDN to connect with
- (only a few ISPs who only offer dedicated ISDN, at a cost of a few hundred
- a month).
-
- > Rockwell is largely responsible for this crapola, and users should
- > consider that carefully in the future.
-
- Rockwell has been a bit slow in fixing some problems with their
- firmware, but then again, they always have been. It's a known fact that
- the firmware that chipset vendors supply with their chipsets isn't
- particularly reliable (whether it's from Rockwell or AT&T or any other
- chipset vendor), so no respectable company uses this firmware without
- fairly extensive modification. Of course, an awful lot of people buy
- modems from somewhat less then respectable companies.. The old saying
- "You get what you pay for" holds true for modems in my experience..
-
- Anthony
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- Anthony Hill | an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
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