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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 10:59:06 -0800
- From: Zero_One@p101.f701.n202.z1.fidonet.org
- Subject: ZyXEL 19.2k question
- Comment-To: Lars_Poulsen@p101.f701.n202.z1.fidonet.org
- Message-ID: <ae8addf8@p101.f701.n202.z1.fidonet.org>
- Reply-To: Zero_One@p101.f701.n202.z1.fidonet.org
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- > In a message of <Dec 09 13:55>, Paul Levin (1:105/7) writes:
- >> PL>Not only is the 19.2Kbps useless unless you are talking with
- another
- >> PL>ZyXel, so is the 16.8Kbps. USR also has a 16.8Kbps which is
- useless
- >> PL>unless it is talking with another USR.
-
- > In article <724092191.AA00000@therose.pdx.com>
- > Jim.Long@p1.f48.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Long) writes:
- > Jim>Heck, V.32bis is useless unless you're talking to another
- V.32bis modem.
- >
- > Jim>English is useless unless you're speaking to another
- English-speaking
- > Jim>person. And even then....
-
- >> PL>The difference is that ZyXel has given out
- >> PL>it's 16.8 technology to Rockwell International (so I'm told)
-
- > Jim>My understanding is that _anyone_ that wants it can have it.
- > Jim>In my uneducated opinion, Rockwell is perhaps one of the least
- > Jim>likely to do anything with it (of their own volitiion).
-
- > I don't work for the Rockwell modem group; but I do _use_
- > Rockwell
- > based V.32bis modems in a big way.
-
- > My impression from the rumors that I hear (some of them in
- > comp.dcom.modems) is that because everybody is pushing to have
- > their
- > own "fast" extensions included in the V.fast spec, we may well
- > see
- > a spec with many incompatible encodings to choose from, and a
- > startup handshake that determines which ones are common to the
- > two
- > modems. Sort of like the relationship of MNP5 and LSW in
- > V.42bis.
- > Determining the "best shared protocol" taking into
- > consideration the
- > line characteristics will be very tricky, and I would expect
- > many
- > problems like "why do my ZyXEL V.fast and my USR V.fast only
- > communicate at 9600 bps when my line is clearly capable of
- > doing
- > 28.8 as evidenced when I put two UDS modems on the same port ?
- > The UDS will do 24.4 with both the ZyXEL and the USR ?"
-
- > In this situation, a company improves its own position to get
- > the
- > competitors to implement its optional V.fast dialect.
-
- > If this is how V.fast gets written, the users will not be well
- > served.
- Lars,
-
- Our 19.2 has nothing to do with v.fast.
-
- Tyrone Horton
- (Zero One)
- Tech Support
- ZyXEL USA
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