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To: drmorgan who wrote (13636)	3/11/1998 12:35:00 PM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (2) of 22053

Newsflashes - March 11, 1998 - Boardwatch article Boardwatch magazine's March cover story reports the magazine's tests of 56K modem performance. In their tests, a U.S. Robotics Sportster x2 massively outperformed a Hayes Accura K56flex. The article is already generating controversy on comp.dcom.modems, and on a number of mailing lists. I personally find the numbers a little hard to believe. In the 56K.COM reader speed survey, x2 had an advantage over K56flex modems, but not by the margins reported by Boardwatch. In Boardwatch's test, the Hayes Accura only once achieved a 40K initial connect speed, and most of the connects were at 36K or less. In contrast, the Hayes survey results for units with recent firmware showed many connects in the high 40s, with correspondingly high FTP transfer rates for compressed files. The Boardwatch tests don't seem to jibe with other published test results. The Macworld modem review noted here last week includes a performance chart that shows little difference between x2 and K56flex units. News.com is also covering the Boardwatch story. 56k.com Did you send them the Boardwatch info? o~~~ O

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