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To: craig crawford who wrote (11701)	12/6/1997 3:32:00 PM
From: Thomas Haegin	Read Replies (1) of 45548

Re: the 56K hoax Craig, <<... The reason why I haven't upgraded to 56K isn't because of a lack of standards. It's because 56K is a big hoax to begin with. You don't get anything close to 56K to start out with and if the lines did run at 56K you would still have to wait for the stinking overloaded servers/backbones which seem to run at about 14.4K! >> I read about this in the safe-harbour footnote of yesterday's 3Com press release, but did not dare to ask about it here if this was really so. I would think though that many potential PC buyers, IT-uneducated as I would imagine they usually are, expect big deals from 56K. This may fire back to all 56K manufactures once consumers realize that speed does not improve all that much, even if the fault lies with the ISP or the telecom company. <<There are enough promising new modem technologies on the horizon >> Do you refer to ADSL? Or do you see more potential in cable and cable modems? Thomas

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