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To: Boplicity who wrote (137810)	7/27/1999 10:35:00 AM
From: Boplicity	Respond to of 176387

I need a their to there subroutine. <gg> Sorry. G

To: Boplicity who wrote (137810)	7/27/1999 10:55:00 AM
From: arthur pritchard	Respond to of 176387

greg:<is fast moving to a cellular model> once again, thanks for posting these valuable thoughts. Please keep it up. I know you are always very busy...

To: Boplicity who wrote (137810)	7/27/1999 5:30:00 PM
From: DOUG H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Greg and thread, The standards are in place for 10 Mps homenetworks D.H. Conexant Votes with Home Phoneline Networking Association to Select Candidate Technology for 10 Mbps Home Networking Standard HomePNA's candidate 2.0 specification will use technology that Conexant cross-licensed with Epigram Inc. in May NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 27, 1999-- Conexant Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:CNXT - news) announced that it voted to select the candidate technology that the Home Phoneline Networking Association (HomePNA) Tuesday said will form the basis for a next-generation, 10 Mbps home networking specification. Conexant is a founding member of the HomePNA. The announcement by the HomePNA is the first step toward the release of a second-generation specification for home phoneline networking technology. The proposed technology for the HomePNA's 10 Mbps specification is currently under development, and will build upon the proven 1 Mbps technology specification that the HomePNA released in the fall of 1998. Conexant plans to introduce a family of 10 Mbps-and-higher home networking solutions that will be compliant with the next-generation HomePNA 2.0 standard, proposed jointly by Epigram Inc. and Lucent Technologies Microelectronics Group, which is expected to be completed before the end of the year. Conexant and Epigram announced in May that the two companies would cross-license home networking technologies and that Conexant would support Epigram's proposed specification for industry-standard 10 Mbps home networking technology. Epigram is a wholly owned subsidiary of Broadcom Corp. ''The selection of a candidate technology for 10 Mbps home networking is an important first step for this emerging marketplace,'' said Matt Rhodes, senior vice president and general manager for Conexant's Personal Computing Division. ''With 10 Mbps performance, home networking can become the heart of a powerful consumer communications and information appliance. ''With the right blend of technologies, consumers should be able to do much more than simply link their computers -- like sharing broadband Internet access using cable modems or digital subscriber line links, and accessing low-cost Internet telephony services with the added convenience of cordless handset technology. Conexant's broad portfolio of communications products includes all these technologies,'' Rhodes added. Home-networking technology gives multiple Home PC users simultaneous access to the Internet without the expense of additional phone line charges and Internet Service Provider (ISP) subscriber fees. Users of connected PCs and Internet appliances also can play networked games or share home networked printers, peripherals, files and applications, all using existing wiring and without interrupting standard phone service. Cahners In-Stat Group estimates that more than 20 million U.S. households will have multiple PCs this year alone. About the Home Phoneline Networking Alliance The Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (HomePNA) is an incorporated, non-profit association of industry-leading companies working together to help ensure adoption of a single, unified phoneline networking industry standard and rapidly bring to market a range of interoperable home networking solutions. Founded in June 1998, HomePNA has grown to include more than 90 members spanning the networking, telecommunications, hardware, software and consumer electronics industries. For more information, including a list of member companies, visit HomePNA's Web site at homepna.org. With revenues of more than $1.2 billion, Conexant is the world's largest independent company focused exclusively on providing semiconductor products for communications electronics. With more than 30 years of experience in developing communications technology, the company draws upon its expertise in mixed-signal processing to deliver integrated systems and semiconductor products for a broad range of communications applications. These products facilitate communications worldwide through wireline voice and data communications networks, cordless and cellular wireless telephony systems, personal imaging devices and equipment, and emerging cable and wireless broadband communications networks. The company aligns its business into five product platforms: Network Access, Wireless Communications, Digital Infotainment, Personal Imaging and Personal Computing. Conexant is a member of the Nasdaq-100 Index, which represents the largest and most active stocks listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market across major industry groups.

To: Boplicity who wrote (137810)	7/28/1999 11:22:00 PM
From: Bandit19	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176387

Gregg, Hi. I agree for DELL to move ahead they need to participate in the Home Networking market. Here's an article from tomorrows IBD on the current state of that subject. Putting Home PC Networks To The Test Date: 7/29/99 Author: Ted Needleman For the last two years, home networking has seemed on the verge of being the next big thing. Homes with two or more computers are now common. And several manufacturers have been promoting radio-frequency networks, as well as networks that transmit data through a home's electric power lines. So far, though, there have been few takers. The market's slow start doesn't worry members of the Home Phoneline Networking Alliance. The advantages of linking home computers and peripherals are clear, the alliance says. You can quickly move files between computers, share expensive peripherals such as CD-ROM drives and printers and even access a single Internet connection from multiple PCs. Plus, all the wiring that's necessary for the network is already in place in most homes, the alliance says. The group advocates the use of existing phone wiring to send data between computers. Both telephones and data can share the same lines without interference. Most voice communication on telephone wires takes place between zero and 4 kilohertz. Data travel at much higher frequencies, generally between 5 and 9.5 megahertz. Among the various home-networking approaches, using phone lines to link PCs appears to have the most support. Investor's Business Daily tested home-networking kits from four vendors: Actiontec Electronics Inc.'s ActionLink, Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc.'s HomeFree Phoneline Network, Intel's AnyPoint and Zoom Telephonics Inc.'s Zoom-HomeLAN. Home- networking packages consist of adapters or cards that attach to PCs. The gear lets you share peripherals such as printers and allows several computers to access the Internet simultaneously through one connection. And all phone-line kits that meet the standards set by the networking alliance are supposed to be compatible. That means a PC with a card from one company will work with equipment from another. In testing, this generally was true - with one exception. The problem had to do with the software that lets multiple users simultaneously log onto a single Internet account. Different manufacturers use different - sometimes conflicting -software products for this purpose. The solution to this problem is simple. Build your network from a single company's cards, or just don't install Internet-sharing software when networking with gear from different manufacturers. Otherwise, the phone-line networks worked very well, consistently transferring data at about 1 megabit per second, or about a tenth as fast as many office networks operate. We were easily able to play multi-user games and send documents to printers attached to other PCs on our home network. There were some minor differences between the four kits we tested. The Actiontec ActionLink and Diamond Multimedia HomeFree were both plug-in adapters, which means you'll have to open up your PC and have an open PCI-style expansion slot to install them. They both cost about $100 for a pair of cards. Zoom Telephonics Zoom-HomeLAN cards were also internally installed PCI cards and cost the same. But they also offer 10Base-T Ethernet capability - a network standard common in office networks. So, with the Zoom gear, you can mix phone-line and standard Ethernet networks, though you can't run both networks at the same time. At $189 for two adapters, Intel's AnyPoint was the most expensive of the four kits we tested. But it was the only one that's available in a parallel-port version. That means you can plug it into the back of your PC, without opening up the case. IMO DELL should take the lead here in a very important market. Best, Steve