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Technology Stocks : 3Com Corporation (COMS) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: craig crawford who wrote (11701)	12/5/1997 11:21:00 PM
From: Eric	Respond to of 45548

Craig 56k meets the markets needs right now. Virtually everybody has a phone and has access. Cable does not go to every house. There is very little infrastructure outside of wireline phones for internet access. I agree with you on dial-up performance. I bitch to my local phone company about the "dirty" inconsistent line her in Snohomish, Wash. My ISP Netcom does not support 56k in either format here in Everett, Wa yet. Otherwise I would be on at about 44k instead of 26k. The demand is there, if they build it we will come. Eric

To: craig crawford who wrote (11701)	12/5/1997 11:56:00 PM
From: pass pass	Respond to of 45548

Although the upgrade is free, it's very challenging for average consumers. People like plug-n-play. A lot of ISP's know how to upgrade but they just use this "non-standard" issue as an excuse to cheat their customers. I use x2, I'll tell you it's much faster than my old 28.8, esp. for day-trading 3Com, ASNd and other fast moving stocks.

To: craig crawford who wrote (11701)	12/6/1997 3:32:00 PM
From: Thomas Haegin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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