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

To: Diana Schilke who wrote (13360)	3/5/1998 7:27:00 AM
From: Moonray	Respond to of 22053

Diana, thanx for passing on the Boardwatch URL. I greatly enjoyed the modem and "Modem War" history. I had hoped that we had seen the last of the Modem Wars, but this part says otherwise: The result is that we will have interoperable modems compliant with the V.90 specification and able to talk to each other. But it appears that large disparities in achievable connection speeds will depend on which client modem you are using, and which server modem you connect to. Our testing would indicate these disparities may be enormous - far beyond anything we've seen with previous modem standards. In the previous round of V.34, the Rockwell chipset was ubiquitous and modem performance was fairly level across the universe of available modems. V.34 was basically V.34. In the coming world of V.90, we would expect to see an almost implausible range of operating performance from modems all purporting to be V.90 compatible. We'll have a standard, but it won't be very standard with regard to performance. So, I guess it's time for x2ers to don their battle gear and get it on once again. The next battle would appear to be one of Modem Throughput (or empty battle). The V.90 empty battle starts with 3COM taking the early lead (as was the case a year ago) and it is theirs to lose. Will the cheaper ROK/LU modems win out over the higher quality (and faster) 3COM modems? Stay tuned. By the way, the only statement I disagreed with was in the second paragraph: "It seems a large body of the population simply refuses to devote their lives to the Internet." How can this be? Surely no one on this thread! We've got to reign in these wayward deviates and get them to devote their full time.<g> o~~~ O