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

To: Moonray who wrote (14309)	3/26/1998 9:11:00 PM
From: jhild	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

I am surprised at those numbers. Anecdotally, I have been getting mostly 52K with Prodigy now for a couple of weeks. Some 50.66 and a little 48K. Before that I was surprisingly getting a little less 52K at the busy hours with IBM.net, 50.66 usually. X2 of course on my end.

To: Moonray who wrote (14309)	3/27/1998 2:01:00 AM
From: Mang Cheng	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22053

I went out tonight and tried to buy a 56K modem for my computer illiterate friend so he can access the internet. First I went to a small shop owns by a friend and he doesn't have any 56K V.90 modems - can't even order one for me. So I went next to a big-box store. This store has tons of all kinds of modems on the shelves but upon very-close inspection and searchings, one and only one of them is a V.90 standard 56K modem, and it's a US Robotics. It's US $130 so I bought one for my friend - installation is $20. To normal consumers, it must be confusing as hell. First of all, every box says it's 56K, unless you know v.90 means new standard, you really don't know what the hack is going on. Secondly, most sales people still try to push those old 33K modems by saying the phone lines don't support 56K. Still a lots of promotion required but the potential is hugh for the first time and upgrade market. Mang