From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 23 00:18:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA06467 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 00:18:22 -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 AAA06455; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 00:18:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from lenc@localhost) by earth.infinetconsulting.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA24445; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 00:34:24 -0800 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 00:34:24 -0800 (PST) From: Leonard Chua To: spork cc: Alan Batie , drussell@internode.net, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 56K vs X2? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, spork wrote: > Howdy, Howdy. > One thing to remember amongst all this M$ reminiscent hype is that ALL of > the 56K modems require a direct *digital* connection to the telco on one > end (the server) to function. It's in the fine print, but all the > standards require this. So if you're an ISP with a term server and > stand-alone modems, be prepared to throw it all away in favor of this new, > unproven technology. Has anyone yet to see a demo of this during a sales > pitch?? Now that is a very good point indeed. I think that throws the balance in favour of using T1 lines. :) Also, I'm probably wrong, but I recall hearing somewhere that there's 56K/X2 server and 56K/X2 client modems. Meaning that even the modem vendor says a particular modem is upgradeable to 56K/X2, it may not neccessarily work as a dialin 56K/X2 modem. Anyone care to dispute that. (I apologise in advance if I'm wrong. I'm pretty dead tired right now :) Cheers. Len