From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 28 03:08:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA07215 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 03:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA07173 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 03:08:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from allegro.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0v6wKI-000QlwC; Sat, 28 Sep 96 12:08 MET DST From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Received: (grog@localhost) by allegro.lemis.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id MAA29426; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 12:05:19 +0200 Message-Id: <199609281005.MAA29426@allegro.lemis.de> Subject: Re: support for 16650 To: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 12:05:19 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) In-Reply-To: <199609272150.OAA24226@athena.tera.com> from "Gary Kline" at Sep 27, 96 02:50:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Gary Kline writes: > > According to Scott Blachowicz: >> Gary Kline wrote: >>> Maybe this change can be dropped into a -current version, >>> yes? I have heard rumblings--at least 3rd- or 4th-hand-- >>> that within a year the POTS modems will be screaming along >>> at 57Kbps or something. Anybody else hear these rumors? >> >> Yup...I just saw an article in the Sept 16 1996 issue of Computerworld... >> >> Rockwell Semiconductor Systems is preparing a 56K bit/sec. modem chip >> set -- today's top out at 33.6K bit/sec. -- that analysts said will >> enable faster access to the Internet and corporate data networks from >> remote sites and mobile workers' computers...enable modems to support >> data transmission over regular analog lines at 56K bit/sec...But one >> user questioned whether regular analog lines can handle data at 56K >> bit/sec. >> > > Well, this supports what USR said. I heard that USR will > have their faster modem out RSN and sometime next year the > rest of the modem mfg'ers will have theirs out. I'm obviously not the only person who has doubts. I wonder if there are some restrictions like "only local loop". Greg