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From: root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: V.32bis frozen?
Message-ID: <6678.27A3B01F@zswamp.fidonet.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 91 12:45:00 EST
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS - Kitchener, Ontario

 >From: tnixon@hayes.uucp

 >In article <1991Jan19.015521.22170@athena.mit.edu>,
 >rlcarr@athena.mit.edu (Richard L. Carreiro) writes: 

> I've heard that since the V.32bis standard hasn't been frozen yet, the
> USR modems with V.32bis cannot be guaranteed to work with whatever
> the eventual standard is.

 >[...]  But, unless it is voted down, there will be NO 
 >TECHNICAL CHANGES to V.32bis before it is adopted.

   This should not diminish the buyers' caution: the manufacturers may ttake 
some time to work out the finer points of protocol negotiation, etc.

   [I realize that, considering your employment, you may not wish to agree with 
me on this issue]

   In my opinion, this is not a good time to be shopping for a high-speed 
modem.  Even the V.42 and V.42bis firmware that I've been playing with lately 
tends to cause bugaboos when calling anything but the device's twin.  I suspect 
that it will be a while before manufacturers get the broad feedback and 
fine-tune their products to the point where V.42bis over V.32bis connections 
will work with the same simple reliability that calling from a 2400 currently 
does.
 

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