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To: Eddie Kim who wrote (16407)	5/30/1998 1:17:00 AM
From: hitesh puri	Read Replies (3) of 45548

FWIW, I bought a X2 modem a few weeks ago. Needless to say the speed difference is very noticeable for all the stuff I do from home. Yahoo quotes, Street.com, Briefing.com, Surfing, Mail etc. I usually connect at 44k-49k in the day but at nights I see the connect speed of 115200. I thought that the Serial IO max limit was 57k. Anyways, I do believe that for the next couple of years there will be alternatives like cable modems and ADSL but they will cater to the early adopters. Mainstream product will still be 56k analog modem as its the best deal out there which is standardised, simple to install, easy on the wallet (I pay $9.95/month to Web America for unlimited usage) and just enough speed for what most people need it for. Today an article talked about ADSL and Cable modem chip sales tripling but look at the comparitive numbers. Less than a million of those versus 26 million analog modems ?! It really took 2 years for 56k to be readily available in a standardised way since it was introduced in 1996 and we all have seen the confusion and hurdles along the way. I find the confidence analysts have in ADSL or cable modems being readily available in such a manner very hard to share, especially in the short-intermediate term. TI already has started shipping their ADSL chipsets so rest assured 3Com has the ADSL modem ready to go but it has to wait for the opportune time to push it. I am still betting on a 56k/ADSL modem combo to show up from our favourite dog. Its one of the bones he had hidden and will be digging it up. -hitesh

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