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Technology Stocks : COMS & the Ghost of USRX w/ other STUFF -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scrapps who wrote (13292)	3/3/1998 2:51:00 PM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22053

More: 3Com Makes V.90 Upgrades Available Online Newsbytes - March 03, 1998 14:27 SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1998 MAR 3 (NB) -- Newsbytes. If you bought an X2-based 56 kilobits-per-second (Kbps) modem from 3Com [NASDAQ:COMS], such as a US Robotics Sportster or Courier 56K modem, upgrades to the new international V.90 56K modem standard are now available online. All V.90 upgrades are backwards-compatible to the X2 standard, 3Com said. Backward compatibility means you won't have to fret if your Internet service provider (ISP) is still running X2 ports. The V.90 modem will still sign on with X2 so you won't have to connect at slower V.34 speeds until your ISP has finished upgrading to V.90 also. Many users, including Boardwatch Magazine following a test by the magazine of ISP service levels, have said X2 modems are faster than Rockwell chip-based K56flex modems. The compromise V.90 standard folded in parts of both X2 and K56flex, raising performance questions in some users' minds. Asked if upgrading to the compromise V.90 standard might actually slow down an X2 user's connection, Rick Hartiwig, 3Com senior product manager for client access, said V.90 users should actually do better than they did under "pure" X2. "We feel like what we've come up with as a joint solution is really the best solution for the customer," he added. "In fact, our customers concur. You know this is the largest testing we've done of any standard or any protocol -- we've had over a thousand sites worldwide, in multiple countries, testing this and helping us improve the quality of the code." He continued: "We feel very confident that this code is truly ready for prime time. It is some of the best code so far" in modem communications. Several ISP equipment vendors, including Bay Networks, have announced their initial V.90 systems will support pre-V.90 X2 and K56flex user modems as well, to encourage faster ISP upgrades. But not all suppliers have said they will support the legacy protocols. Upgrading ahead of time will keep users from having to run at a slower connection speed until they do upgrade, once their ISP upgrades to V.90. Not all 3Com US Robotics modems can be upgraded to V.90 by a simple software download. It depends on whether the modem is an internal or external model, whether it includes voice capabilities and when it was made. Also, some upgrades are still being developed, said another 3Com source. To find out if a particular US Robotics modem can be upgraded online, users may go to the 3Com Upgrade Advisor site for guidance. It is located on the World Wide Web at 3com.com and follow the instructions. Reported by Newsbytes News Network: newsbytes.com Yah, yah, I know. Don't shoot the messenger....<g> o~~~ O