From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 22 09:10:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA14357 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 09:10:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from earth.infinetconsulting.com (earth.infinetconsulting.com [207.23.43.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA14340; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 09:10:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from lenc@localhost) by earth.infinetconsulting.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA22501; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 09:26:20 -0800 Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 09:26:20 -0800 (PST) From: Leonard Chua To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: 56K vs X2? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Seeing as how everyone wants to connect at faster and faster speeds (for less and less money, ;{, It would very probably be a good idea to buy equipment that's upgradeable. So far as I know, there's (or will be) two version of 56K technology. Here's a blurp from a Livingston salesperson: "We have announced an agreement with Lucent Technology on the 56k modem technology. A copy of the press release is available on our Web page. Lucent and Rockwell will be compatible. Between the two of them, they own 75-80% of the modem market. Thus, we will be compatible with 75-80% of the modems out there. USR does not appear to have any plans to be compatible with other 56k technologies, so their 56k will only work with the other 20-25% of themodems which are also USR. ....." Anybody care to comment on the percentages? I was also wondering if perhaps USR may be sheer power of brand-name identity and loyalty, end up over the long run as the winner? Cheers. Len